Engagement with Youth and Academia ...
Sama attempts to intervene at all the levels of society in order to bring about individual and institutional changes towards betterment of people’s lives. In this regard, Sama believes in crucial importance of capacity building of the youth as potential harbinger of change in the direction of gender empowerment.
With this approach Sama has initiated Health and Nutrition training of college students in Delhi. This project had been conceptualized by National Commission for Women. A specific training curriculum was designed for the students and the programme was well attended by the students in Lady Sree Ram, Gargi, Maitreyee and other colleges.
Apart from organizing different workshops in various colleges, Sama has also been participating in different awareness building initiatives in school curriculum development. Sama has held presentations in various schools like the Bloom Public School, Mother’s School and others in and around Delhi.
Textbook and curricula development with NCERT ...
Sama has been responsible for preparing chapters on health for Social Science Text book for class 7, Social and Political Life-II under Phase II as per the National Curriculum Framework (NCF-2005). This chapter will enable students to understand health as determined by social political economic factors, rather than from within a limited physiological framework. Students therefore will be able to form a more comprehensive perspective on health. The text books reach nearly 8 lakh students across the country and is a part of the effort of the NCERT, Member of the Textbook Development Committee (TDC) to initiate a process to develop new generation of text books towards bringing about reforms in school curriculum. [Top]
Course on Gendered Health Research for MS University ...
Sama facilitated a session From Research to Advocacy as part of a short course on Gendered Health Research at MS University, Baroda. The course was organized by the Women’s Studies Research Centre, Women’s Health Training Research and Advocacy Cell (WOHTRAC) in March 2006. [Top]
Engaging and Initiating reforms with NHRC ...
Sama is in close interaction with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the issues of women and health. As a part of the NHRC’s initiative to spread awareness on human rights education Sama has been responsible in preparing a dossier on Women’s Right to Health. This document is a part of the set of Dossiers on Human Rights Education for University Students. The primary objective of these dossiers is to inform, inspire, motivate, cultivate curiosity and equip students to cultivate informed opinion. The attempt has also been towards locating and highlighting human rights discourses through the real experiences of people as represented by people’s movements such as Narmada Bachao Andolan, Right to Information, fisher folk movement, environmental movements and others across the country.
NHRC also invited Sama to develop a curriculum Handbook on Human Rights Education for Beginners for school children titled Reproductive and Sexual Rights with an emphasis on the ongoing reproductive rights movements in India for the University Grants Commission (UGC) through the SS Foundation, Karnataka. The curriculum provides information on reproductive health and rights, sexuality and the campaigns around these issues. Since the curriculum caters to schoolchildren, it was developed in a way that the concepts are easily understood.