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The Crucial Role Played by MVF Field Mobilizers in Changing Gender & Education Norms for Adolescents

The Ika Chaalu: Enough is Enough project is implemented at the local level by MVF’s field mobilizers. They are all first-generation...

Gram Panchayats as Allies of Adolescent Girls

Realising equal rights and ensuring completion of secondary education for adolescent girls are the main objectives of the Ika Chaalu –...

Challenges in Building Social Norms for Gender Equality and Adolescent Girls’ Education

The experience of the Ika Chaalu project has demonstrated that the process of budling social norms towards gender equality and adolescent...

Adolescent Girls Resisting Marriage During the Covid Lockdown

Our latest blog, with field experiences from the Ika Chaalu Project, on how norms can change and adolescent girls are resisting marriage.

Recasting Social Norms to Eliminate Child Labour and Universalize Education

Our latest blog, on how social norms denying children their rights are changed by MVF's approach, making universal education the new norm.

The Ika Chaalu Project: underlying perspectives

Introduction to the underlying perspectives of the Ika Chaalu Project and approach.

Adolescent girls assert their rights for gender justice and equality.

“Ika Chaalu” - enough is enough. Adolescent girls assert their rights for gender justice and equality. Ika Chaalu! Sharirik Hinsa: Ikka...

Introducing: The Ika Chaalu Blog

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, our regular visits to the field have perforce been replaced by online meetings, both...