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Campaign Support
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Current Campaigns Supported by NCAS:
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NCAS plays a critical role in co-ordinating, networking and planning campaigns that work collectively with activist groups and people’s movements, especially those within marginalised groups. The campaign support programme lends special attention to legislative advocacy, working with social activists to catalyze social change at the policy level. And while NCAS works on legislative advocacy at the national level, the campaign support program seeks to continue its geographical focus on the central belt of India, especially with the Maharashtra State Legislature.
The first 10 years of the campaign support programme addressed issues concerning the right to livelihood, with a specific focus on the right to land, forest, and just governance. More recently, however, campaign support at NCAS broadened its outreach to support campaigns on environmental issues, development-induced displacement, forced industrialisation, and equitable water distribution. With due focus to women’s livelihood rights, NCAS further proposes to build and support campaigns on adivasi and dalit rights, lending particular attention on strengthening democratic alliances between these groups and the state and national governments.
The campaign support programme extends support to advocacy campaigns in need of effective intervention for a social justice campaign. The areas of support provided by NCAS include: documenting campaign processes, compiling policy-based publications, sending out action alerts, convening national and regional level consultations, preparing people’s manifestos, interfacing with bureaucrats, expanding networks with other social justice actors, investigating ground-level progress, researching issues, and mobilizing strategic campaign planning inputs. Through campaign support, NCAS strengthens advocacy campaigns and increases the skills of social justice advocates in India. |
