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 The
primary objective of the project, funded by the Ford
Foundation, New Delhi, is to empower
grassroots women around the issues of reproductive
health and gender justice from a rights based
perspective. Concurrently, the TDMS core team is
seeking to upscale its own capacity in order to
bring about meaningful and sustainable impact of
its work.
The
project works in three tiers, the first tier being
the community, the second being the Government
institutions service providers and the third being
the general public and the district
administration.
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At
the advocacy level the project targets the
general public and the Administration to
create awareness on gender and RH rights. |
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At
the service providers levels, govt.
service providers are engendered. |
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At
the grassroots, communities are being
empowered through organisation
building, awareness generation and
development of community leaders. |
At
the community The
project has developed a comprehensive database on
the status of reproductive health status  in the
project area and identified the weaknesses. The
project is currently in the process of gender
sensitizing the service providers of the formal
health network, which mostly consists of the
government health network, and also building up a
cadre of health workers and young women leaders at
the grass root level. The advocacy components of
the project include public awareness and advocacy
on RH rights and violence against women
strengthening networking with other women
organizations in Assam and other states of the
region. The
major accomplishments of the project are:
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TDMS
has been able to install a rights based
perspective in its work.
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The
legal aid cell has grown in activism and
emerged as a platform of trust and support for
women who are victims of various kinds of
aggression.
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The
gender sensitisation workshops conducted by
TDMS have been very successful in terms of the
issues that they have brought to the fore and
have helped the participants to take a new
look at firmly established and unchallenged
patriarchal values.
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Emergence
of community level leaders is also a
noteworthy achievement of the project.
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Our
network has grown tremendously and this has
helped to gain access to better training inputs
and learning from others best practices.
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