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Learning to Become Citizens: An Empowering Outcome of TASS

Each time girls act collectively, negotiate, persist or return when there is no response they acquire something that cannot be measured by whether a particular demand was accepted. They learn whom to approach, how to speak, how to persuade, when to negotiate, when to insist, how to build alliances and how to move between different layers of power.

Oct 99 min read

Evidence of Sustainable Norm Change

Part 2: Data Collected by Council for Social Development The Hyderabad chapter of the Council for Social Development (CSD) published a...

Oct 7, 20244 min read

Evidence of Sustainable Norm Change

Part 1: Data Collected by MVF Field Mobilisers There is credible and mounting evidence from the field that adolescent girls in the...

Sep 9, 20244 min read

“Why can’t they include the history of patriarchy and rights of girls in our text books?”

Voices of Adolescent Girls The long drawn-out Covid-19 lockdown was lifted in Telangana in the beginning of August 2021. Schools and...

Apr 6, 20225 min read

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...

Nov 2, 20219 min read

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.

Jul 9, 20219 min read