A Community-Anchored Approach to Prevent & Respond to Gender-Based Violence
Strengthening village systems to ensure safety, coordination, and accountability.
About the Project
The Gender Harmony project delivers a curriculum that trains women and community leaders in digital literacy, family and emotional wellbeing, gender awareness, and legal response pathways for gender-based violence.
Participants engage their communities as Gender Point Persons to create locally tailored actions that promote safer households and improve access to support services.
The initiative also works with village-level committees and institutions to strengthen referral systems and long-term engagement in prevention and response efforts.
Problem/Need
Why Gender Harmony Matters
Gender-based violence remains widespread in Karnataka, while access to safety and support services remains limited.
In districts like Kolar, gaps in coordination, follow-up, and accountability often prevent timely and effective responses, leaving affected individuals and families to navigate fragmented systems on their own.
Weak prevention and response mechanisms can reinforce silence, isolation, and stigma, making help-seeking feel risky and inaccessible.
Creating Sustainable Change
A Scalable Community-Centered Model
Gender Harmony uses a multi-tiered, women-centered approach that combines household-level norm change with village-level service linkage systems. Through participatory training, community action, and locally led prevention mechanisms, the project creates a scalable model addressing both prevention and response that can be adapted across diverse communities.
Household Level
Transforming attitudes, relationships, and gender norms within families.
Community Action
Training women leaders, mobilizing communities, and strengthening local ownership.
System Linkages
Connecting communities with safety, legal, health, and support services.
Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals
Quality Education
Gender Equality
Reduced Inequalities
Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
Partnerships for the Goals
Leadership & Collaborators
Director, AMMACHI Labs & CWEGE
Associate Director
Project Manager
Research Coordinator
Senior Project Facilitator
Project field Coordinator
PhD scholar
Project Team Member
Project Team Member
Project Intern