The basic denial of rights and violence against women and children in Asia often occurs in familiar spaces, driven by structural disparities, patriarchy, and prevailing socio-cultural and gender constructs. Top-down adult-child interactions demand obedience through fear, undermining children’s agency as rights holders.

At Safetitude, we firmly believe that shift in these social and gender norms and perception of communities’ perception of power and agency are at the root of the lack of well-being and compromised safety. Our goal is to bring a shift in this approach, as imperative determinants of empowerment and equitable relationships that foster a culture of safety and respect for women, children and vulnerable communities. Recognizing the power imbalance between organizations and the children and communities they support is crucial for driving real, lasting change. We are committed to provide accessible resources and knowledge on safeguarding to all organizations, along with providing advisory and hand holding support.

In the broader ecosystem, Safetitude acts as an accelerator and a resource hub committed to provide high-quality expertise on child protection and gender programming. We recognize the increased investment in child protection and gender discourse to improve effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the present child protection and gender interventions through transformative program strategy, program design, implementation and partnership models thus improving impact, learning and scale.  Given that children are a core stakeholder to our work, creating resources, training models and content for developing their life skills, voice and agency is one of our foundational business commitments.

In all, Safetitude is about building individual skills and inculcating institution development in a crosscutting and multidimensional approach.