About Safetitude
The basic denial of rights and violence against women and children in various spaces has been long recognized in Asia. A large percentage of this violence and harm is perpetuated by known people in familiar spaces.
Structural disparities embedded in the social hierarchies, patriarchy and prevailing social and gender norms perpetuate this violence.
The adult-child interactions are top-down wherein adults demand obedience and use fear to ensure compliance to normative behaviour. This approach fails to recognize children as individual rights holders and neglects the development of their agency. At Safetitude, we firmly believe that shift in these social and gender norms and perception of communities about power and agency is at the root of wellbeing and safety of women, children and vulnerable communities.
We recognize that the ecosystem has civil society organizations and CSR programmes who are directly engaging with the community and Grant making organizations that have focussed on child rights and gender justice. In the ecosystem, we view ourselves as an accelerator and a resource hub committed to provide high-quality expertise on safeguarding, child protection and gender. We envision our journey of driving change through multiple pathways.
Capacity Building and Institutional Development
Across all Approaches
Creating Knowledge resources and training manuals that can be used by large number of organizations to help quality and scale
Facilitating Program Design, strategy, implementation and partnership of Gender and Child Protection Programs leading to high reach and Impact
Ensuring organizations that work with children, women and vulnerable communities are accountable to their safety and well-being by integrating SAFEGUARDING SYSTEMS
Safetitude is a pioneering social enterprise in Asia, committed to adapting safeguarding to the regional context, ensuring organizations are safe spaces. We view safeguarding as a means of organizational accountability to the communities we serve. It is pathway for members of development organizations to recognize that they have greater power in comparison to the children and communities they serve.
We are committed to provide and keep evolving accesible resources and knowledge on safeguarding to all organizations, along with providing advisory and hand holding support.
Safetitude Ecosystem
International and National
Setting high Standards and benchmarks of child and adult safeguarding and child Protection for different sectors across countries in collaboration with state actors through child protection laws, regulatory framework for schools, healthcare facilities, entertainment spaces or hospitality industry and all spaces accessed by children. Collaborating with National and International investment organisations and funding ecosystem to be responsive to the child protection requirements of the context and ensuring meaningful impact.
Community
Technical support to funding organizations and NGOs to design and operationalize child protection and gender-inclusive portfolios and programs, to ensure greater effectivity, efficiency and sustainable impact on communities. Creating Evidence for scale ensuring greater coverage and quality of programmes.
Institutions
Developing Safeguarding systems in institutions to ensure the well being and protection of children, women and adults at risk within their ecosystem. Strengthening institutional programmes on gender equity and child protection, and transforming institutions through polices, strategies and institutional capacities on Gender Inclusion.
Individuals: Adults and Children
Capacitating Individuals is a means of personal transformation. Enhancing knowledge, influencing attitudes, upgrading skills and promoting behaviour change contribute to both the personal and professional pursuits. Developing champions who advocate for gender equity and safeguarding are key to creating an enabling environment for safeguarding practice in all spaces and gender equity in life.