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A Youth-Led Decade of Haiyya
Stories, Choices, Commitment, Love, Hope to build People Power
Haiyya Annual Report Is Out!
As we take on another year, we are committed to enable more leaders from the margins
Our Theory of Change
As a youth feminist organisation working on movement building through community organising, Haiyya’s theory of change is multi-dimensional. In order to empower young people to become leaders, address local issues, and build stronger, more equitable communities, we at Haiyya use the following routes to drive change and impact.
Campaign Acceleration and Incubation
We seed bold ideas and nurture them into powerful campaigns through deep incubation. Then, we accelerate what works — scaling community-led strategies that drive systemic change.
Leadership Development
We grow and develop leaders grounded in community, courage, and strategy. Through organizing, they build collective power to challenge injustice and win lasting change.
Ecosystem Building
We strengthen the organizing ecosystem by shifting dominant narratives and creating tools that fuel grassroots power. Our strategy weaves stories, resources, and relationships to sustain movements for the long haul.
Collaborative Partnerships
We build transformative partnerships rooted in trust, co-creation, and shared purpose. By weaving alliances across movements, we amplify collective power to drive systemic change.
Donors, Partners, Allies
Our collaborators who have made this journey possible and worthwhile, who have stood by us for a shared purpose.
What our partners are saying
Having worked with Aprajita and the Haiyya team for the past decade, 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.
Marshall Ganz
Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Being a coach was quite an interesting experience, I could live various experiences through the campaigners. It also helped me groom my skills to listen, pause and understand that every campaign is different and not every campaigner will have the same journey. As a coach I am happy that the campaigns I coached could individually make some impact on their community.
Mayuri
(Network Coach, YCRN 2023)
As changemakers, we are constantly working on ways to make situations better with respect to the regions, communities and issues we are working with. But are there tools which can help us to work more intentionally towards making an impact? People, Power, Change (PPC) is the space for that. We learnt how to find ways of forming structures of teams, build strategies, see ourselves in what we are doing and most importantly, make sure that the respective communities we work with and their needs are at the center of whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.
Don Hasar
PPC Cohort (2022)
I see myself as able to shift my dreams to action. I've learnt so much during and post my Campaign Incubator (CI) journey at Haiyya that there is a lot of confidence in carrying out my campaign. I also see myself in a better place now in terms of networking with people and proposing my idea to make a positive shift in the school system. I think this is my first step of a long journey of community organizing!
Athena
CI 2022 Cohort