GRIT
at Prajnya houses a full-fledged research
agenda on gender violence in tandem with a year-round public
education programming calendar whose pivot is the 16
Days Campaign against Gender Violence.
WHAT GRIT
DOES
Research
A major objective
of this programme is to carry out systematic, rigourous,
sustained research on gender violence.
The lack of accurate,
easily available data on many forms of gender violence often
becomes an impediment to policy reform or even the implementation
of new programmes. The fact is that we do not know as much
as we should about the incidence, frequency, varieties,
causes and costs of gender violence in South Asia. What
we do know, and have access to is scattered, often unverified
information from a number of sources.
Prajnya seeks
to fill this lacuna, through sustained year round gathering,
analysing and dissemination of data on different forms of
gender violence.
The Gender
Violence Report is our flagship publication, but Prajnya
has also generated several articles, fact-boxes and social
media-based information initiatives in the last two years.
Public
education
The Prajnya
16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence, a
Prajnya activity since 2008, will remain the focal programming
point for GRIT, drawing together activities and processes
initiated year-round.
The GRIT
Processes are the core component of GRIT’s year-round
programming. They are outreach programmes and processes
that we create or facilitate for different groups of people,
initially on a demand basis.
