Early Child Marriage Initiative: A Monitoring and Evaluation Project
The Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), entered into a partnership in October 2014 with American Jewish World Service (AJWS) who support the project, to undertake this research on monitoring and evaluation of their Early/ Child Marriage (ECM) Initiative in India. The research is conducted in a participatory mode with grassroots organisations supported by AJWS as part of their ECM Initiative in India. Our research brings in a feminist perspective and methodology needed to address a complex phenomenon such as early and child marriage. The intention is not just monitoring and evaluation of efforts related ...
An Exploratory study of discriminations based on non-normative genders and sexualities
This research study involves generating an understanding of discrimination in the areas of health, education, shelter and housing, public infrastructure and utilities, and political formations, and involves the work of researchers across the country. Discrimination here is understood not just as incidents or moments of certain kinds of conduct or behavior, but also as the contexts and structural conditions that enable or institutionalize such conduct, or the terms of inclusion into various systems that keep out various persons and are experienced as discrimination. At this point, we are attempting to interpret what we have been hearing in our fieldwork over ...
Aspirational Chatra
The MoU of the Aspirational Chatra Project was signed on 2 March 2019 between School of Development Studies (SDS), TISS and Deputy Commissioner’s Office, Chatra, Jharkhand. Of the 115 districts identified by the Niti Aayog under its Aspirational District Programme, Chatra is one of the 35 districts enlisted as a Left-Wing Extremist Area and has been allocated to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The programme, with its thrust on multidimensional outlook to development, incorporating Health, Education, Infrastructure, Livelihood and Digital Capacity, envisions to transform economically weaker and alienated districts into hotbeds of innovation and growth. SDS, TISS team has developed ...
Women Domestic Workers: Citizenship Rights, Capacity Building and Advocacy
Even as women domestic helps eke out a living at the heart of Mumbai city, they are the most invisible category of informal sector workers. Their everyday experiences at the workplace and their homes are marred by long working hours, low pay, frequent cases of harassment at the workplace, insecurity of work, absence of social security, high incidences of domestic violence, financial vulnerability and serious health issues. How do we address this complex set of issues and accompanying disempowerment that are associated with the intimate spaces of their homes and that of their employers? What role do public and community-level ...
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