INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE

Having identified inclusive governance as a cross-cutting strategy for empowering women and girls from the most marginalized communities to live in dignity and build secure and resilient lives, NEW LIFE CLUB focuses on creating a space for public authorities, duty bearers and citizens to have open conversations, leading to participatory planning and implementation of policies.

NEW LIFE CLUB  seeks to promote inclusive governance by focusing on three domains, beginning with empowering marginalized citizens, particularly women and girls. Concerned with enabling the poor and marginalized to be aware of their rights and to have a stronger voice to demand change, this domain promotes community-based collective actions and encourages them to hold the authorities to account. The second domain entails working with a range of power holders, including the state, to improve their ability to fulfill their obligations and be more responsive, transparent, and accountable, especially to the impact groups. The third domain is the space where expanded, inclusive and effective negotiations are held between the previous two domains. Inclusive governance in NEW LIFE CLUB ’s projects is assessed based on the participation of citizens, accountability, and transparency of power-holders, strengthening of inclusive spaces and the improvement of services and outcomes.

Inclusive governance is a core element in many of NEW LIFE CLUB ’s projects, particularly those on livelihood, education and disaster management. NEW LIFE CLUB ’s community-level Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and School Management Committees (SMCs) are platforms that promote decision-making processes that are inclusive of every stakeholder.

BUILDING RESILIENCE

NEW LIFE CLUB  focuses on building resilient livelihoods particularly by supporting communities to adapt and to be prepared for any emergencies that may threaten their livelihoods and well-being in the future. NEW LIFE CLUB ’s resilience framework integrates livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation approaches under a single assessment framework.

This includes enhancing employability, leadership skills, and capacities to take multiple ways of income to diversity risks, increasing awareness about public schemes and climate information and improving access to markets and information. Second, by building assets such as enabling women to own and manage community-based micro-financing of productive assets such as machinery, livestock and land, and rehabilitating degraded natural resources. Third, by collectivization where women are encouraged to practice group-based savings to finance their livelihood and demand land and forest rights. This is followed by developing participatory value chains, a method that helps enhance women’s capacities to take up new and non-traditional roles in agricultural and forestry value chains. The fifth approach is to engage with men and other influential actors to sensitize them on the role of women and the issues they face in practicing resilient livelihoods.

ADVOCACY

NEW LIFE CLUB  advocacy initiatives aim to influence existing and upcoming policies to uphold, scale and sustain the empowerment of women and girls from the most marginalized communities.

NEW LIFE CLUB  engages with policymakers and builds relationships with key State and National level networks and alliances to build support for the marginalized communities. Building on the work done over the past few years, the NEW LIFE CLUB  focuses on developing outcome-based thematic advocacy strategies for all the sectors NEW LIFE CLUB  operates in. At the international level, NEW LIFE CLUB engages with various processes to advocate on issues relevant to India. The organization also conducts studies and develops knowledge products to advocate on various issues affecting the marginalized communities.

In FY 2015-16, NEW LIFE CLUB  was consulted for several State and National level policy-related work by the Government of India and was invited by various State Governments for suggestions on the implementation of various development programs. NEW LIFE CLUB  also participated and contributed in important civil society and government processes related to Sustainable Development Goals, both within the country and outside.

CORE VALUES

NEW LIFE CLUB  works towards motivating and encouraging its staff to imbibe, internalize and demonstrate these defined core values of the organization.

RESPECT

Believing in and appreciating the dignity and potential of all human beings.

INTEGRITY

social, ethical and Maintaining organizational norms and adhering to the code of conduct.

COMMITMENT

Fulfilling organizational goals with full commitment to our duties and responsibilities.

EXCELLENCE

Setting high-performance standards and being accountable for and responsible for our work.