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The National Centre for Advocacy Studies (NCAS) is a social change resource centre that aims to strengthen people centred and rights based advocacy in order to empower advocates and facilitate the creation of a just and humane society.Though the focus of its activities is in India and the rest of South Asia, NCAS is emerging as a premier centre for people centred advocacy throughout the Global South. NCAS works to support and strengthen people-centred advocacy through capacity development programmes, research and documentation, and campaign support and networking. 
  
Vision:
NCAS believes in:
  • a society without poverty, injustice and discrimination,
  • where every person and community can realize Human Rights to live with dignity,
  • working towards a people-centered participatory, transparent, accountable and just governance.
 
Mission:
NCAS is an Advocacy Resource Centre that seeks to:
  • strengthen capacities and struggles of marginalized communities to claim Human Rights and Social Justice.
  • promote people’s access, influence and participation in institutions of democracy.

Objective: 

NCAS seeks to create an enabling environment for social action groups, social change agents and citizens to:

  • get access to democratic institutions;
  • effectively advocate for the rights of the marginalised sections;
  • empower marginalised sections, including women, tribals, dalits and labourers in the unorganised sector.
 

Function:

As a social change resource centre, NCAS endeavors to:

  • strengthen the capacity of people and social action groups to advocate on issues of basic rights and public interests;
  • facilitate democratic processes;
  • extend capacity building, information, research and campaign inputs.

 

 

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