India

ISSUE: GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

CHANGE MODEL

Role Model: WGLG India’s flagship initiative “The Hero Academy” engages young men in the mission to make communi-
ties and homes safer for women and girls across India. Using a film-based gender sensitization curriculum, the Academy
promotes gender equality among young men and mobilizes them to champion girls’ and women’s rights.

KEY OBJECTIVES

• Foster positive role model relationships for boys and young men
• Engage men and boys as champions for gender equality
• Create safer homes and public spaces for women and girls

OUTCOMES

100+ community-designed gender solutions, including:

• A girls-only school bus in Pune to prevent sexual harassment, which was forcing girls to skip classes
• A drug awareness campaign in a Bombay slum, to prevent gender-based violence characteristic of male addicts
• A change in the perception of violence against women, with substantially more viewers sharing the belief that it is never justified
• A girls-only play area in a village in Beed, enabling girls formerly confined to the house to engage in physical activity

PARTNERS

• CARE India
• Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ)
• International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
• Magic Bus

• 363

  Number of screenings

• 6,450

  People Reached

• 235

  Community facilitators trained