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Campaign Activities

Safety Audits Across the City

JAGORI has conducted a series of safety audits (inspired from METRAC’s model of safety audits) in commercial, residential, educational areas in Delhi to identify issues, which make a space safe or unsafe for women and girls.

Each safety audit involved walking through the selected space, both before and after dark, observing and recording infrastructure issues as well as women’s perception of how they felt as they walked through the space.

We hope to share the findings from these audits in the form of a report with various stakeholders in the near future and take up interventions for addressing the issues that have emerged in partnership with civil various citizen’s groups. Some interventions are already underway.

Dialogue with Various Stakeholders

JAGORI organised a Dialogue on December 5, 2005 with various stakeholders working/concerned with different aspects of the issue.

The participants included policy makers (representatives from National Advisory Council and Welfare Commissioner from the Labour Commission), urban planners (member of Delhi Urban Arts Commission), law enforcers (Dr. Sagar Preet Hooda, ADCP NW Delhi), representatives from marginalised groups such as the National Association of Blind as well as representatives from various civil society organisations (Residents Welfare Assocoations, NGOs, Trained Nurses Association of India)

The Dialogue was a step towards the collective efforts needed to make people in Delhi take responsibility to create a safer and caring city where all residents can live, work, and move freely.

It helped us understand the perspective of various stakeholders and reinforced the idea that working towards a safe city will require a range of strategies and involvement of different groups of people.

Partnering with Various Citizens’ Groups

  • CII (Confederation of Indian Industry): Has helped reach out to working women in the corporate sector through Wenlido self defence trainings.
  • FCB Ulka Advertising Ltd.: Has created a powerful ad film for spreading the campaign message via mass media.
  • The History Channel: Has supported the campaign by airing the film on their channel as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility
  • NIIT, Barista, FabIndia:Have all helped in distributing Helpline booklets that seek to empower women with information and phone numbers they can turn to in times of need.
  • Delhi Police: JAGORI has conducted gender trainings with women constables who will be going out on beat for the first time in Delhi under the Parivartan scheme. Going out on beat will help the women constables to interact with women living or working in the area and in the process address their safety concerns
  • PEHEL groups/Women’s Development Cell in Delhi University: In association with these Delhi University groups JAGORI has conducted workshops in several colleges on the issue of “Safety of women students”. Interestingly many male students have participated in these workshops as well.

Public Awareness Campaign

  • Mass Media Campaign: JAGORI in association with FCB-Ulka Advertising has come up with a powerful 35-seconds film that takes a comic yet serious look at staring a common form of sexual harassment that is often trivialized. Though created as a part of JAGORI’s “Safe Delhi Campaign”, the film is relevant to just any urban centre in India. The film has been aired in PVR Cinemas and on The History Channel. We are in the process of partnering with various other TV channels and cinemas for screening the film. View the film now.
  • Outdoor Media Campaign: Kiosks have been put on streets around the city asking the community to join in, for making Delhi safe for women.
  • Distribution of Helpline Booklets: As a part of the campaign, one of the initiatives taken by JAGORI is the collation of a large number of emergency numbers in Delhi- hospitals, police, NGO help-lines, media, lawyers and other such emergency numbers in the form a handy pocket booklet. The idea is to empower citizens with information on existing resources in the city that they can turn to in times of need. Organisations such as Barista, FabIndia, NIIT as well as many individuals have extended their support in distributing these booklets.
  • Workshops with college students and faculty members: JAGORI has conducted short sessions on ‘Safety of Women Students’ in various Delhi University colleges. The obejctive of these sessions is to facilitate an understanding of how public spaces are gendered, why women are sexually harassed, and other such issues, through experience sharing and discussion, as well as collectively develop strategies for dealing with the issue.
  • Safe Delhi at the Half Marathon: More than forty supporters of the campaign, both men and women, participated in the Delhi Half Marathon on October 15, 2006. More…

Interventions

  • Women, Take Back the Night: Women from all over Delhi got together at Dilli Haat on 30th November to “Take Back the Night”. More…
  • ‘Kya Dekh Rahe Ho?’ at Saket: Dec 8, 2006 Fri at the PVR Saket-Press Enclave Intersection: JAGORI and Blank Noise tied up for a street intervention. The objective was to question ‘Staring’, a very common form of street sexual harassment that is very often trivialised. More…

Experience Sharing

  • Talk on Women’s Safety at the India Social Forum: JAGORI shared learnings from the experience of the Safe Delhi Campaign so far, at the India Social Forum in Delhi. More…
  • Talk on Making Cities Safe for Women-Experiences from Victoria: JAGORI in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Department at JNU organized a talk by Dr. Carolyn Whitzman, expert on prevention of violence in urban areas, from the University of Melbourne. More…

Survey with Women Across Socio-Economic Group

We are conducting a survey on Sexual Harassment as a part of the campaign. Please support our efforts and spend 5 minutes to participate in the survey, online.

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