National Centre For Advocacy Studies (NCAS) is a membership based social change resource centre that aims at strengthening rights based and people centred advocacy, so as to empower people who are struggling for the creation of a just and humane society.

NCAS works with social action groups and professionals, as well as public spirited citizens. Though the focus of its activities is India and the rest of South Asia, NCAS is emerging as a premier  centre  for  rights  based  and  people  centred  advocacy  in  the  Global   South more »

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ADVOCACY INTERNET

Right to Health   Health is a universal human aspiration and a basic human need. The development of society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population’s health, how fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum, and the degree of protection provided from disadvantage due to ill-health. Dramatic inequalities dominate global health today. More significantly, there are large disparities within a country, which national averages do not reveal. Systematic health inequalities exist across different social groups, socio-economic classes, ethnic groups, race and gender.  more »

Recognising the Historic Injustice

Campaign for the Forest Rights Act, 2006                                     AThis book is a compilation of the processes that played a critical part in the build up of the Campaign for Survival and Dignity, which finally led to the creation of this legislation. This book provides a historical sketch of forest rights and their status in India and discusses in detail how the Campaign evolved through various strategies and events before and during the build-up to the Forest Rights Act. It also explores the role of parliamentary committees, civil society groups and other mechanisms in expressing the demands of the people  more »

PARLIAMENT DIGEST

Winter Session 2003-06                                     Adivasis are one of the most deprived and marginalised groups in India. The social and human development indicators for adivasis clearly reflect the extent and depth of their marginalisation. In terms of education there are still many districts where literacy rates of adivasi women are below ten per cent. Further, in most of the states majority of the adivasis live well below the poverty line. The real protector and nurturers of natural resources are termed and treated as encroachers in this paradigm of ‘development’. Over the decades this has led to systematic displacement and alienation of adivasis from their own land and livelihood.  more »

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Sponge Iron Industries   In the past five years India has emerged as the largest producer of Sponge Iron. This polluting industry has been classified as the 'Red Category' industry and is the most evident example of poor environmental governance that a country could boast of. The Sponge Iron industry, with its clear backward and forward linkages of equally polluting activities - iron ore and coal mining on one hand and steel production on the other - is a classic example of how the poor continue to bear the brunt of large scale pollution of their living environment while the polluters continue to flourish with abetment from every, virtually dysfunctional, government or regulatory authority in this country.  more »

PCA SERIES

Minimum Wages   This booklet explores many of these concepts and is aimed at the activists who are engaged with the issues of the unorganised workers. This booklet describes in a simple manner the concept of minimum wages, its evolution and lists out the legislations related to minimum wages. It also looks at the critical issues involved in the implementation of minimum wages and the struggles initiated by the workers for minimum wages. This booklet will be a resource and inspiration for the activists and the civil society organisations involved in the struggles for the basic rights   more »

ADVOCACY PERSPECTIVE

Janarth Sakharshala: The Sending Villages Report        The Large numbers of labourers in different parts of our country are forced to migrate from their villages; many are continually on the move in search of a livelihood. This report is the outcome of the survey and we have great pleasure in offering it to all who are interested in issues connected with migration or education or both  more »

ADVOCACY UPDATE

Advocacy Update on Land Rights                                      The increasing dispassession of land due to neo-economic policies, which favour land privatisation and large developments projects, the land dependent communities are pushed further at fringes of society. This update attempts to highlight various struggles and protests dealing with the question of land rights from the perspective of the rural poor, landless and marginalised communities  more »

NCAS TRANSPARENCY SHEET

Details about NCAS Management Policy, Financial Principles, Salary Structure and Funding Sources  more » NCAS' ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR 2003-04  more » NCAS' ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR 2004-05  more » NCAS' ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR 2005-06  more » NCAS' ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR 2006-07  more » ANNUAL REPORT OF NCAS 2004-05  more » ANNUAL REPORT OF NCAS 2005-06  more »