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. 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.
Safetitude is a pioneering social enterprise in Asia, committed to adapting safeguarding to the regional context, ensuring organizations are safe spaces. For us, safeguarding is more than just protocol—it’s about an organization’s accountability to the communities they serve. 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, we view ourselves 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 and considerable space and scope to improve effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of present Child protection and gender interventions through transformation in program strategy, program design, implementation and partnership models in 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 business commitments.
In all we do building individual skills and ensuring institution development is a crosscutting approach.
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.