About Our Work

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  • We Build High Impact Grassroots Programs

    Grassroots organising is at the center of our work. We design innovative programs and campaigns that fosters public participation and engagement on diverse issues.

  • We Upskill
    People To Lead
    Change

    Our training, coaching and incubation methods develops future-fit changemakers who can inspire and drive change with their people and organisations.

  • We Accelerate
    Collective
    Action

    By bringing diverse stakeholders and non-conventional players together , we organise efforts to collaborate and work on the key issues of our time.

  • We Create
    Resources For
    Learning &Leading

    The future of social changemaking is to continuously learn, adapt and optimise, and we build resources that can equip more changemakers and organisations to improve and transform their work.

We Build High Impact Grassroots Programs

Grassroots organising is at the center of our work. We design innovative programs and campaigns that fosters public participation and engagement on diverse issues.

We Upskill
People To Lead
Change

Our training, coaching and incubation methods develops future-fit changemakers who can inspire and drive change with their people and organisations.

We Accelerate
Collective
Action

By bringing diverse stakeholders and non-conventional players together , we organise efforts to collaborate and work on the key issues of our time.

We Create
Resources For
Learning &Leading

The future of social changemaking is to continuously learn, adapt and optimise, and we build resources that can equip more changemakers and organisations to improve and transform their work.

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Who is a changemaker?

YOU!

A lawyer who is organising a campaign for dignity and rights of female prisoners.

An NGO Professional that wants their campaign on education to achieve a tangible impact, beyond advocacy and policy implementation.

A young student organising his community to save the local river from industrial waste.

A resident who is running a campaign to demand better sanitation facilities for the people in his neighborhood.

A group of students who are building a movement to eradicate gender-discriminatory university policies.

Until now, changemaking has been perceived to be a job of a select few. But we’re here to change that narrative! We are bridging the gap between changemakers & ordinary citizens who are left out of the conversation, by equipping them with the right tools to lead their own people-powered movements that create sustainable change!

What’s New

Our Annual Report 2021-22 is here!
Our Annual Report 2021-22 is here!
Haiyya turns 7 - Celebrating Youth Feminist Power!
Haiyya turns 7 - Celebrating Youth Feminist Power!
Apply for People, Power & Change 2021 Workshop!
Apply for People, Power & Change 2021 Workshop!
Our 2020-2021 Annual Report is here!
Our 2020-2021 Annual Report is here!
We Need You: COVID-19 Response & Relief Initiative
We Need You: COVID-19 Response & Relief Initiative
Designing a Campaign: A Game for Changemakers
Designing a Campaign: A Game for Changemakers
How to Guide Series: Designing Meeting Spaces for Maximum Impact
How to Guide Series: Designing Meeting Spaces for Maximum Impact
Moments to Movements: Lessons from a Webinar
Moments to Movements: Lessons from a Webinar
How to Guide Series: Building a Culture of Powerful Coaching
How to Guide Series: Building a Culture of Powerful Coaching
Building Powerful Counternarratives, Battling an 'Infodemic'
Building Powerful Counternarratives, Battling an 'Infodemic'
Launching How to Guide Series: Adaptive Planning During COVID-19
Launching How to Guide Series: Adaptive Planning During COVID-19
COVID-19 & Youth Organizing: How are we ‘managing change’ in the changing times at Haiyya?
COVID-19 & Youth Organizing: How are we ‘managing change’ in the changing times at Haiyya?
Change is good: Haiyya had a makeover!
Change is good: Haiyya had a makeover!
Campaign Incubator 2019: How innovation accelerated campaigns!
Campaign Incubator 2019: How innovation accelerated campaigns!
Pinjra Tod: 4 Lessons on Modern Day Movement Building
Pinjra Tod: 4 Lessons on Modern Day Movement Building
Towards Transformational Change: Our 2018 Report
Towards Transformational Change: Our 2018 Report
How unmarried women are dismantling sexual health stigma in India
How unmarried women are dismantling sexual health stigma in India
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What’s New

Our Annual Report 2021-22 is here!

Our Annual Report 2021-22 is here!

Click here to read our full report!  2021 for all of us has entailed embracing and accepting the undeniable impact, positive and negative, the year has had on all our lives. It came with its set of challenges, opportunities, trends, questions and doubts of a greater magnitude, at an individual, collective and systemic level. At Haiyya we made bold, intentional...

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Haiyya turns 7 - Celebrating Youth Feminist Power!

Haiyya turns 7 - Celebrating Youth Feminist Power!

We've turned 7 this week! We at Haiyya are celebrating seven years of people-powered organizing, community building and leadership! Over the past seven years, building youth feminist power has been our guiding light. This year, we want to celebrate what youth feminist power means to us, and delve deeper into its different facets! Building youth feminist power for us has...

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Apply for People, Power & Change 2021 Workshop!

Apply for People, Power & Change 2021 Workshop!

We are closing 2021 by bringing together leading organizers and campaigners in one virtual room to train in community organizing, leadership and public narrative as a campaign practice! The ongoing pandemic pushed us to reimagine what challenges and opportunities look like in situations of uncertainty. During this time of vulnerability, people came together, organized themselves to take a people-centric approach...

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Our 2020-2021 Annual Report is here!

Our 2020-2021 Annual Report is here!

Haiyya’s Annual Report 2020-2021 is out now and we are thrilled to share our learning journey with you all - about us, our work, and our commitment to strengthening and nurturing the movement-building ecosystem, and much more! Click here to read the full report Read the report to learn more about how we worked with the goal of restructuring and...

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We Need You: COVID-19 Response & Relief Initiative

We Need You: COVID-19 Response & Relief Initiative

It is an understatement to say that we are seeing challenging and difficult times. The ongoing 2nd wave of COVID-19 has had rippling effects in India, causing catastrophic tragedies, devastating impacts on people’s health, as loss of life & livelihoods continue to amount. Some of the worst affected communities have been marginalised young people, with a lack of access to...

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Designing a Campaign: A Game for Changemakers

Designing a Campaign: A Game for Changemakers

Giving a creative twist to learn about campaigning, the Humanitarian Leadership Academy, Quicksand and Haiyya recently collaborated to create an innovative learning tool. The three organizations that work in humanitarian learning, campaigning and design-thinking space have come together to create a game to help you practice designing a campaign about an issue you care about. The newly launched game called...

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How to Guide Series: Designing Meeting Spaces for Maximum Impact

How to Guide Series: Designing Meeting Spaces for Maximum Impact

Presenting to you the third in our series of 'How to Guides', a need of the hour - a guide on 'How to Design Meeting Spaces for Maximum Impact'. The new reality of our lives is virtual. While many organizations are contemplating if offices and in-person setups will resume anytime soon, a lot have already accepted and shifted completely online...

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Moments to Movements: Lessons from a Webinar

Moments to Movements: Lessons from a Webinar

- By Akshay, Head of Campaigns & Mobilisation, Haiyya February 2020 was an important moment for us at Haiyya, as we completed five years, half a decade, in the social change and campaigning space. It was a moment of reflection, celebration and pride. However, the beginning of the year also saw a succession of incidents, including the Delhi pogrom leading...

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How to Guide Series: Building a Culture of Powerful Coaching

How to Guide Series: Building a Culture of Powerful Coaching

The second in our series of 'How to Guides', we're presenting a guide on 'How to Build a Culture of Powerful Coaching'. The current pandemic has put organisational leaders, team leaders, campaign and movement leaders, in situations of uncertainty. From working remotely to being in never-before-held positions of leadership, with little idea of how to go about. In such situations,...

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Building Powerful Counternarratives, Battling an 'Infodemic'

Building Powerful Counternarratives, Battling an 'Infodemic'

- By Madhura Dasgupta, Head of Learning & Leadership Development, Haiyya The world is witnessing a new crisis. A global pandemic, giving rise to uncertainties with no clear path to overcoming them. At a time like this, each day brings a new set of challenges, from hunger, job security and displacement to stranded migrant labours and lack of medical facilities...

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Launching How to Guide Series: Adaptive Planning During COVID-19

Launching How to Guide Series: Adaptive Planning During COVID-19

We at Haiyya are launching a new series of 'How to Guides'! These ‘How to Guides’ are created by Haiyya's network of community organizers, campaigners and facilitators to make relevant tools, tips, systems and practices readily available to the social justice work practitioners. Our aim is to decentralise knowledge, skills and practices to enable movements, campaigns and young leaders to...

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COVID-19 & Youth Organizing: How are we ‘managing change’ in the changing times at Haiyya?

COVID-19 & Youth Organizing: How are we ‘managing change’ in the changing times at Haiyya?

Aprajita Pandey Founder & CEO Twitter: @AprajitaPan Understanding, managing and responding to change seems to be the headline of our collective stories in 2020, with the series of national and global events and situations we have witnessed over the past few months. We are all dealing with perhaps the worst pandemic of our lifetimes. It has not only posed us...

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Change is good: Haiyya had a makeover!

Change is good: Haiyya had a makeover!

You’ve played an integral role in helping us evolve - by asking the right questions and taking leadership to organize around the issues we all cared about! We’re constantly innovating, designing and building for tomorrow. Last year, we embarked on a journey to evolve our brand to better reflect who we are, where we’re going and the world in which...

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Campaign Incubator 2019: How innovation accelerated campaigns!

Campaign Incubator 2019: How innovation accelerated campaigns!

Haiyya's Campaign Incubator Program is designed to enable young campaigners with a platform to address their needs and provide expert advice to empower changemakers to strategically accelerate the growth and impact of their campaigns. Here's looking at our incubatees' journeys - challenges and wins! From mobilising communities and working with the government to connecting you with expert activists working on-ground...

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Pinjra Tod: 4 Lessons on Modern Day Movement Building

Pinjra Tod: 4 Lessons on Modern Day Movement Building

After a notice declaring cancellations of nightouts was put up in Jamia Milia Islamia in 2015, a hosteller wrote a powerful letter to the Vice Chancellor and Pinjra Tod was born. After three years of resilient campaigning using some of the most rebellious tactics, the autonomous women’s collective has become a movement that has spread across the country, with women...

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Towards Transformational Change: Our 2018 Report

Towards Transformational Change: Our 2018 Report

2018 was an exciting year for Haiyya! We made big strides, as we ran crucial campaigns, spread community organising through our different programs, got more and more ordinary citizens involved in building movements and created changemakers. Read our full annual report for trends, key moments and highlights of 2018, and exciting plans for the way ahead in 2019!

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How unmarried women are dismantling sexual health stigma in India

How unmarried women are dismantling sexual health stigma in India

Click image to read the full report According to a survey we conducted with unmarried women in New Delhi, as low as 1% of women had received information pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights from their mothers, doctors or government campaigns. The stigma around unmarried women’s sexuality impacts how young, unmarried women view their sexual health, and puts...

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A revolutionary campaign that’s dismantling stigma around sexual & reproductive health services for young, unmarried women in New Delhi by holding providers accountable.

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Haiyya is inviting applications to join the 2022 cohort of Haiyya Youth Climate Resilience Network. You will be joining a youth climate movement building community that will support, accelerate and facilitate your climate organizing work in non-urban, small towns and geographies of India.

Applications Open for Cohort of 2022! READ MORE

Young leaders, civic associations, advocacy groups,and social movements were taught how to drive change through leadership development across issues of social-economic-political significance.

How can we amplify the work of changemakers? READ MORE

A 1.8 million signatures-strong petition was submitted to the Union HRD minister to demand compulsory gender sensitisation programmes in school, escalating from a grassroots campaign encouraging parents and children to question traditional gender roles in the states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana.

how can communities come together to work on gender equality? READ MORE

Accreditation and Awards

Accreditation and Awards

LCN

Haiyya is a global affiliate of Leading Change Network, a global community of organizers, educators and researchers.

Youth Action

Our Health Over Stigma national campaign has received the Civicus Goalkeepers Youth Action Accelerator Award for 2019.

Common Wealth

Haiyya’s work has been recognized by Commonwealth Youth Awards in 2014 and 2018.

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Lucy Harris

Community Development Lead, Mozilla,
San Francisco

Haiyya’s highly competent team helped us navigate a series of complicated, ill-defined challenges and produced quality work with minimal guidance. They bring fantastic perspective and insights that make it possible for a company based in Silicon Valley to begin to understand how to effectively mobilize in India.

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Ila Bose

Project Manager, Help Delhi Breathe, Purpose India

Help Delhi Breathe is closely working with Haiyya on activating youth in Delhi to fight air pollution & explore renewable energy solutions. Haiyya is leading dynamic campaigns on-ground & building the capacity of citizens to actively be part of solutions. It has been a pleasure to partner with them to enable campaigners to think strategically & work cooperatively in combating environmental issues.

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Marshall Ganz

Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer,Kennedy School of Government,Harvard University

Having worked with Aprajita and the Haiyya team for the past 4-5 years, I have come to appreciate their leadership, courage and creativity - and resilience - in translating their values into collective action. They combine learning and doing in a way that is critical for developing the capacity to engage with today’s ever-changing challenges. By engaging with some of modern India’s most challenging problems and developing the capacity of youthful leadership to engage people in solving them, theirs is a pathway forward. When we talk it feels as if I’m having a conversation with the future.

Testimonial - Lucy Harris

Lucy Harris

Community Development Lead, Mozilla,
San Francisco

Haiyya’s highly competent team helped us navigate a series of complicated, ill-defined challenges and produced quality work with minimal guidance. They bring fantastic perspective and insights that make it possible for a company based in Silicon Valley to begin to understand how to effectively mobilize in India.

Testimonial - Ila Bose

Ila Bose

Project Manager, Help Delhi Breathe, Purpose India

Help Delhi Breathe is closely working with Haiyya on activating youth in Delhi to fight air pollution & explore renewable energy solutions. Haiyya is leading dynamic campaigns on-ground & building the capacity of citizens to actively be part of solutions. It has been a pleasure to partner with them to enable campaigners to think strategically & work cooperatively in combating environmental issues.

Testimonial - Marshall Ganz

Marshall Ganz

Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer,Kennedy School of Government,Harvard University

Having worked with Aprajita and the Haiyya team for the past 4-5 years, I have come to appreciate their leadership, courage and creativity - and resilience - in translating their values into collective action. They combine learning and doing in a way that is critical for developing the capacity to engage with today’s ever-changing challenges. By engaging with some of modern India’s most challenging problems and developing the capacity of youthful leadership to engage people in solving them, theirs is a pathway forward. When we talk it feels as if I’m having a conversation with the future.

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