Women’s Property Rights

The primary objective of WPR’s proposed program is to cultivate a robust network of grassroots organisations and individuals dedicated to addressing the issue of Equal Property Rights in the state of Maharashtra.

The WPR Approach

Over the next three years, the program aims to achieve the broader goal through these actions

Core Areas of Work

Community

  • Awareness
  • Creating structures to claim property rights
  • Community action
  • Leadership development for sustainability

Social Organizations

  • Perspective development
  • Capacity Building (knowledge, skills, motivation)
  • Simplifying the legal language for activists.

Bureaucrats

  • Sensitization of officials
  • Ensuring accountability
  • Specifying roles and responsibilities

Policy Makers

  • Sensitization
  • Crete Pressure to generate/modify laws, policies, orders, schemes etc.
  • Clear guidelines for WPR related issues

The WPR Program Process

Identification & selection of potential individuals (Leaders) and organizations. Finalising priority WPR issues. (15-18 Org and 30 leaders).

Perspective and Capacity building of the selected leaders and their organizations through workshops.

Data gathering and analysing to form basis.

Organizing communities and creating awareness on WPR issues.

Collective ground action to achieve outcomes on various property related issues such as claiming rights learning the systems and provisions, reading documents etc.

Development of network- planning, strategizing, roles and responsibilities, advocacy plan, action, results.

People Centered advocacy at various levels (media, legislative, executive, judicial), making authorities accountable.

Documentation of the process, successes, challenges and its dissemination.

Donation