Social Action Committees: Community Intervention to Reduce Gender-based Violence

U. Vindhya and Lakshmi Lingam

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2019, vol. 26, issue 3, 263-287

Abstract: This article analyses the principles and processes of a state-sponsored intervention to deal with gender-based violence in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in south India. Anchored within a poverty-alleviation programme, this intervention is implemented through Social Action Committees (SACs) which are small groups of women drawn from women’s collectives of self-help groups (SHGs). In this article, we critically explicate three key themes that we found to be characterising the philosophy and processes of the SAC intervention: restorative justice, psychosocial support, and engagement with men.

Keywords: Social empowerment; state interventions for alleviating gender-based violence; women’s collectives; restorative justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0971521519861160

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