PROJECT SWARAJYA is a non-profit making, non-party, pluralistic and open-ended platform that underlines the need for debate, discussion and dialogue among the concerned key players to tackle the complex human rights issues that the society is confronted with. It came into existence in mid-1988 in the midst of a country-wide movement for making Right to Work a fundamental right in the Constitution of India. Besides this campaign it also then took up the particular demand of legislating and implementing Employment Guarantee Act for rural unskilled labour in Orissa along Maharastra lines. Orissa being a predominantly rural-tribal society, the women in villages who among others have been marginalized due to one-sided development programmes needed most of all guarantee of job round the year by the State a thing which has been experimented since mid-70s in Maharastra. Fortunately enough, after a lapse of a decade and half, the Common Minimum Programme of the UPA Government at the Centre has legislated a National Employment Guarantee Act for the whole country. The Organisation has happily prepared itself to conduct a campaign of earlier type for ensuring the foolproof pro-people orientation to the promised legislation.
About
Participation in International Events
Participation in the World March of Women at New York & Washington in October 2000
Participation in World Social Forum in Bombay in 2003
Participation in Beijing + 10 in Bangkok in 2004
Participation in Exposure training on Women trafficking in Kathamandu in 2006
Participation in General Body meeting of Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women in Bangkok in 2007
Participation in Asian Conferenmce of Women’s Shelter from 30th October to 3rd November 2018 in Tokyo, Japan
Participation in All Japan National Shelter Symposium from 3 to 4 November, 2018 in Hokkaido, Japan.
Participation in PHA4 (Public Health Assembly) from 14th to 19th November, 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Participation in 4th World Conference of Women Shelter from 4th November to 8th November 2019 at Kaosiung of Taiwan.
Networking
The organization has partnership with both Central Govt, State Govt, District Administration, International organisation and various Non Govt organisations.
The organization was a partner of DLCC ( Cuttack District Level Coordination Committee for NGOs
Partner of NAWO ( National Alliance of Women)
Member of Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women
Member of ATSEC India
Member of FINGODAP India
Member of WPC
Member of Men Engage
Member of Asian Network of Women Shelter
Member of Global Network of Women Shelter
Member of ISSUP
Our partners from past to present
The Organisation has right since its inception has relied upon basically two sources of support to maintain itself and also for carrying forward its activities. Firstly, the voluntary contribution from its members and staffs, and supporters and sympathizers from among the public. Secondly, grant-in-aid from Government agencies and as well from funding agencies at home and abroad. Among the Central Government agencies who have made partnership with our organization are Dept of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Civil, Supplies and Consumer Welfare, CAPART, Ministry of Law, Justice Leal Aid Services Authority of India and Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation, Dept of Excise, Govt of Odisha, Centre for World Solidarity, Secunderabad, Nirnaya Trust, Secunderabad(Only women’ fund in India)
Among the international agencies who have supported the Organisation in the past are DANIDA, SIDA, NORAD, CEBEMO, UNDP and WORLD BANK( New Delhi Small Grants Programme) WWF Nature India, GAATW, GNWS, ANWS etc.