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ROHINI’S PROFESSIONAL LIFE ROHINI’S PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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ROHINI’S PROFESSIONAL LIFE
ROHINI’S PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
APWLD Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
Thailand Programme Officer, APWLD Secretariat 2010-2011, for both the Women in Power Programme and the Feminist Law and Practice Programme (May 2010 – May 2011)
Website www.apwld.org
APWLD is a regional network
of women’s organisations and activists
in Asia Pacific, committed to
enabling women to use law as an
instrument of social change for
equality, justice and development.
APWLD’s members are drawn from
26 countries and the secretariat is
based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Programme Officer
Women in Politics (WIP) and
Feminist Legal Training &
Practice (FLTP)
The PO worked closely with APWLD
membership; particularly the organising
committees responsible for these
programme areas, but will report
directly to the Regional Coordinator.
The main work also involved
organizing WIP and FLTP trainings,
and also assisting in the updating of
the FLTP training manuals.
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Job description
THE HUNGER PROJECT New Delhi, India(July 2007 – May 2010)
Website www.thp.org/india
The Hunger Project is a non-profit,
non-government International Human
Rights Organisation working in 14
countries across the world. In India,
The Hunger Project works on gender
equity and governance. It works with
women elected to structures of local
governance (panchayat) to build their
leadership in decision-making.
Rohini’s Primary responsibility:
To Coordinate the Capacity-Building portfolio for India
Rohini would conceptualise, plan, organise and implement
Training of Trainers (ToT):
With trainers of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
and community based organisations (CBOs) on primary level
Women’s Leadership Workshops.
On thematic or need based capacity building of elected women
representatives.
On federation building of elected women representatives.
Conceptualise and prepare capacity building frameworks and modules.
Evaluate capacity building workshops with elected women representatives.
Evaluate and assess trainers from local NGOs and CBOs.
Prepare and design learning-material like handouts and workbooks used
by trainers as well as by elected women representatives.
Coordinate with trainers from across India.
Conceptualise, plan and organise capacity building for the staff of
The Hunger Project.
Other involvements in The Hunger Project:
Initiating an Anti Sexual Harassment Committee in ‘The Hunger Project’.
Managing and evaluating state programmes in three states in India.
Annual Report 2007-08 of The Hunger Project
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JAGORI, Programme Associate In The Training Unit(November 2004 – June 2007)
Website www.jagori.org
JAGORI is a women’s training,
communication, documentation and
resource centre that aims at
spreading feminist consciousness
using creative media. Rohini was a
member
of the Training Unit, which
conceptualises, organises and
implements training workshops on
Gender and related issues.
As a member of the Training Unit, responsibilities included:
Conceptualising, organising, planning and implementing workshops
called the Gender Basic Courses to build a primary understanding
of gender, patriarchy, empowerment and feminism for development
activists.
Organising and planning advanced workshops called Thematic
workshops, which view specific issues like Masculinity, Law and
Globalisation with a feminist perspective.
Conceptualising, planning and implementing workshops and sessions
on the social construction of gender and related issues like sexual
harassment at the workplace and in public spaces with CBOs, NGOs,
students and faculty of Delhi University and common citizens.
Writing and designing a Trainers’ Kit for gender trainers at the
grassroots and CBO level. This kit comprises exercises for participatory
training; handouts on fundamental concepts; sectoral analyses on
patriarchal institutions and training modules for the target participants.
Documenting workshops in the form of reports.
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Other involvements in JAGORI:
Organising and conducting Safety Audits for research on
a campaign called the Safe City Campaign against Sexual
Harassment in Public Places.
Liaison with mainstream media and common citizens to spread
awareness on the issue of sexual harassment in public spaces.
Nominated as a member of a Committee against Sexual
Harassment in the Delhi School of Economics,
University of Delhi.
PRIA (Society For Participatory Research In Asia) Fatehabad, Haryana, India Program Intern(May 2003 – February 2004)
Website www.pria.org
PRIA is a Delhi based non-profit
organisation with a mission of
strengthening local self-governance
under the 73rd and 74th Constitutional
Amendment Act (CAA), an Act of
Parliament passed by the Government
of India. Rohini was assigned the task
of expanding and strengthening civil
society in the district of Fatehabad,
in the state of Haryana.
Responsibilities:
Facilitated and strengthened a local women’s
collective called Nari Network to address
and question issues of gender based violence,
inside the home and institutional violence.
Organised and implemented workshops and
sessions on Gender and related issues with
Nari Network.
Prepared a team within Nari Network to
organise and facilitate awareness-building
sessions on local governance with the women
elected representatives.
Facilitated training workshops on the 73rd
CAA and Social Development with elected
representatives in selected blocks in Fatehabad
and Faridabad districts of Haryana. This was done
in collaboration with the Haryana Institute of Rural
Development.
Liaison with the local administration in Fatehabad
to address issues of women’s rights by involving
them in workshops and sessions at the grassroots
level and encouraging a dialogue between them
and Nari Network.
Initiated a study on local governance in urban
areas (under the 74th CAA) in the small and
medium town of Fatehabad. Designed the
questionnaire and prepared a team to carry out
the study.
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ROHINI’S INTERNSHIPS
MAHILA JAN ADHIKAR SAMITI (MJAS)Programme Associate
Ajmer, Rajasthan, India (2004)
MJAS is a women’s collective in the state of Rajasthan
(Ajmer) working to address the issue of gender based
violence. A research study was conducted to analyse the
participation of women in local governance under the
73rd Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) in Rajasthan.
The results of this study were integrated into a national
document ‘Removing Fences: Building Alliances’, and
used as a resource material by the Government of India
to assess the trends and level of participation of women
elected representatives under the 73rd CAA.
‘RIGHT TO FOOD’ CAMPAIGNResearcher
Jharkhand, India (2002)
Member of the team that conducted a national study
to understand the role and effectiveness of the Public
Distribution System (PDS) vis-à-vis food security and
destitution, especially amongst the Antyodaya card
holders (those living below Below Poverty Line). The
findings of this study were presented as a Public Interest
Litigation (PIL) on food security to the Supreme Court to
demand for a Right to Food as an essential human right.
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URMUL (UTTARI RAJASTHAN MILK UNION LIMITED)
Volunteer, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India (2000)
Volunteer at URMUL is, which is a non-profit
organisation working at the grassroots on diverse
issues like education, economic support and
socio-political structures. She participated in their
interventions and submitted a report on the status
of education in a particular village she visited.
YOUNG INDIA PROJECT ANANTAPUR Volunteer, Andhra Pradesh, India (2000)
Volunteer, Young India Project, which is a non-
profit organization working in the grassroots on
land rights and economic empowerment of women.
Observed the functioning of the district and block
level unions and attended meetings
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GRAM VIKAS, GANJAM Volunteer, Orissa, India
(1999)
Volunteer with Gram Vikas, a non-profit
organisation working with tribal, scheduled caste
and other marginalised communities. Observed
and participated in various activities like
indigenous construction of disaster proof housing,
small scale industries of cane and bamboo, adult
education programmes and health camps.
VIJAYA Volunteer, Orissa, India (1999)
Volunteer with Vijaya, a non-profit organisation, initiated
outreach programmes for people affected by the super
cyclone that hit Orissa in 1999. Rohini helped their team
distribute relief material like clothes, books and stationery
for children, plastic sheets for makeshift tents and seeds
to the adults. The team visited Ersama, one of the worst
affected areas in Jagatsinghpur district and Astaranga
block in Puri district.
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