Collaborators Category: Featured Collaborations

“We found that the Nyayaa team is very responsive and had put in all the efforts to make the campaign “Meri bhi awaz suno” successful. With the team’s efforts, we have successfully answered community questions and helped them to resolve their grievances. Nyaaya also ensures the last mile justice. I look forward to having a long and meaningful partnership with you.”

Sultan Ahmad, Director-Media and Governance, Gram Vaani.

Gram Vaani is a social tech company which uses technology to create participatory media platforms that people find accessible and adaptable. Incubated out of IIT-Delhi, Gram Vaani started in 2009 with the intent of reversing the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools, they have been able to impact communities – more than 3 million lives touched through 25+ district and partner platforms covering 20+ Indian states.

“The team at Nyaaya is extremely driven, passionate and meticulously detailed with their legal research. Their work was incisive, thought-provoking and very accessible for our audiences to understand. It’s always a pleasure working with organisations who share the same vision and values.”

Charit Jaggi, Founder and Director, We the Young

We The Young is a youth media platform who have been working in the impact and media sector. Their content revolves around youth culture: their passion, mental health and life stories! Their aim is to amplify the voices of young change makers, connect youth with opportunities, document stories of struggle and strength and help brands engage with youth via campaigns.

Ungender is a full-stack knowledge and technology advisory to help companies achieve a culture of inclusion and employee-first culture in a data-driven manner. They believe that to help companies build workplace safety, the wellbeing of those who put their trust in them comes first. Ungender focuses on identifying the barriers to achieving inclusion through their Assessment & Due Diligence Services​ and on designing interventions that enable achieving the desired results.

Ungender’s programs are primarily facilitatory, driven to impart practical and updated knowledge, and have elements of audience profiling incorporated.

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service which allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging.

“Working with Nyaaya has been an excellent experience – it’s rare to find partners who invest deeply in collaborative approaches, to achieve common goals. The Nyaaya glossary has generated a lot of interest through our social media channels – which demonstrates how relevant and easy to understand the content is. We are looking forward to many more opportunities to partner with Nyaaya in the future!”

Antaraa Vasudev, Founder, Civis

Civis is a community driven platform, which is built and maintained by Civic Innovation Foundation.

Civic Innovation Foundation is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to generate public awareness and provide education on issues of civic importance. The Foundation has worked in partnership with non-profit organisations and Government bodies to facilitate citizen’s participation in the law making process at a ward, city and state level.

To enable other organisations to conduct citizen’s engagement, they have created open source toolkits on civic engagement, which can be implemented in low literacy areas, as well as the open source platform.

Youth Ki Awaaz is India’s largest, completely crowdsourced platform with a growing community of over 160K+ writers, encouraging free inquiry and reasoned debate. Stories on YKA positively impact the public narrative, policy, culture and democratic values.

Bumble is a social network that allows you to feel empowered while you make those connections, whether you’re dating, looking for friends, or growing your professional network. One first move on Bumble could change your life. Bumble encourages integrity, kindness, equality, confidence, and respect during all stages of any relationship — whether online or offline.

“We have enjoyed working with Team Nyaaya, whose legal expertise and communication skills, combined with their admirable working ethics have helped us create a set of explainers which is likely to benefit a large section of the digital community.”

Sneha N Pillai, Communications and Advocacy Lead, TQH

The Quantum Hub is a Delhi based organisation that was founded in 2017 with the express intent of working on complex public policy problems in the dynamically evolving Indian ecosystem. Set up as a consulting firm, TQH was conceptualised to bridge the gap that exists in the policy space. TQH works with a host of clients – both private and public – on challenging policy problems across a range of sectors.

“In 2021, YLAC collaborated with Nyaaya to build on the legal knowledge of the participating fellows and nudge them to create content which can help spread awareness about legal rights and remedies. The collaboration was an insightful experience for both the fellows and team YLAC. We look forward to more such collaborations in the future.”

 Surabhi Malhotra, Senior Officer, Programs

Founded in 2016, Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC) aims to increase the participation of young people in the policymaking process and build their capacity to lead change. Their interventions are designed to equip citizens with a better understanding of the society they live in and the challenges that it confronts. Their aim is to help young people broaden their perspective, think critically about their socio-political construct, tap their leadership potential and acquire skills to create long lasting impact.

“I’ve had an excellent experience working with Nyaaya’s team on several occasions. As our content partner for the legal section of the Sayfty Survivors’ Toolkit, they helped us understand the Indian laws around violence against women and girls in a language and with examples that made it easy to comprehend for a layman. The team is a pleasure to work with. The team brings legal expertise along with good work ethics that makes it a pleasant learning experience to collaborate with Nyaaya”.

 Dr. Shruti Kapoor, Founder & CEO, Sayfty Trust

Sayfty is an organisation which works towards empowering women against violence. Sayty’s vision is to make the daily lives of millions of Indian women safer by empowering them to take a stance against gender violence. A woman’s safety is her birthright and Sayfty’s programs and initiatives ensure that she feels safe and free from violence. They educate women and girls about the issue of violence against women by using digital media, storytelling and gender role discussions.

Khabar Lahariya is India’s only digital rural news network. What makes Khabar Lahariya unique is not just their journalists – women from Dalit, tribal, Muslim and backward castes – but also their groundbreaking rural journalism.They are prominent as a women-run brand of ethical and independent rural news. Khabar Lahariya reaches five million people a month through multiple digital platforms and have a network of 30 women reporters and stringers in 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Muktha Foundation is a Karnataka based initiative focussing on training, research, and advocacy pertaining to the prevention of abuse and promotion of mental health. The motto of the foundation is to prevent interpersonal violence and promote intrapersonal wellness

LXME is India’s first financial platform for women. LXME provides experts-backed, hassle free financial advice to women. They aim to inspire a wave of financially fearless women actively managing their money and achieving their dreams. Beyond encouraging women to save and invest smartly, LXME believes in the power of building a community for women to drive money conversations.

Agami advances ideas that serve justice. Agami does this by identifying ideas, reframing problems, curating leaders and catalysing collaborative action. They do this with a mindset of abundance and transparency.

The Queer Muslim Project is South Asia’s largest virtual network of Queer, Muslim and allied individuals which regularly creates digital content to raise awareness about and safeguard the rights of LGBTQIA+ persons. Their major focus is on creating a safe space for Queer Muslims to get together and build a support system for them outside their homes. They focus on creating awareness, establishing dialogue, educating Queer Muslims and outreaching to their respective families and friends.

Child Rights and You was born of a dream to ensure happier childhoods for all children. Over the past 4 decades, CRY works with 102 local NGOs across 19 states in India and has impacted the lives of over 3 million children.

HAQ: Centre for Child Rights works towards the recognition, promotion and protection of rights of all children. It aims to look at the child in an integrated manner within the framework of the Constitution of India, and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which India ratified in 1992, and contribute to the building of an environment where every child’s rights are recognised and promoted without discrimination.

Hidden Pockets Collective (HPC) is a Non Profit Organisation. It is registered in Karnataka, India. It works around raising awareness and educating young girls and women about their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Currently it is running its programs in Karnataka, Bihar and Kerala. Through its programs, HPC conducts workshops in Government Schools and colleges and also in underprivileged community so that young people can get accurate information on SRHR.

Centre for Social Justice is a socio-legal, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) initiated by Institute for Development Education and Learning (IDEAL). CSJ is one of the first organisations of its kind in India that uses the judicial system to fight for the rights of maginalised people.

Blank Noise is a community of ‘Action Sheroes/ Heroes/ Theyroes’ ; citizens and persons taking agency to end sexual and gender based violence. Blank Noise was initiated in 2003, as a student project, in response to the normalisation of street harassment, in India and globally. Over the 18 years, Blank Noise has designed numerous public and participatory projects to affect public consciousness and build collective responsibility towards the issue. Blank Noise proposes and facilitates ideas for new collective action. Its interventions enable women, girls and persons to confront the climate of fear, warnings and victim blame. Projects are designed to heal, initiate trust, and build empathy. Interventions such as Meet To Sleep invite women and persons to take a nap in public parks, under the open skies, claiming the right to live free from fear and defenceless. Meet To Sleep enables women to create a new relationship with their bodies and their public environments, one which is not rooted in shame and fear, but in pride and belonging.

Blank Noise is built on the lived experiences and labour of its Action Sheroes/ Heroes/ Theyroes. It rests on the power of collaboration with the larger feminist movement , feminist collectives, everyday citizens and community. Blank Noise works towards creating feminist futures, across sites of violence ranging from streets, campuses, home or the web. It’s new project the Action Sheroes Guide To Gender Justice is piloted in association with Nyaaya.

“Nyaaya is a unique organization working to communicate our complex legal system in a simple yet informative manner – their work is fundamental for citizen action and for a better democracy.”

Anushka Shah, Founder, Civic Studios

Civic Studios is a Mumbai based organisation that was incubated at the MIT Media labs, USA. Their aim is to build bridges between citizens, government and public institutions, and in turn help strengthen the democracies we live in through research and media production. Their work comprises digital comedy, studio productions and a research hub.

SHEROES is a women-only social platform, a safe, trusted, high-empathy and constructive space, powered by communities, a chat-based helpline, resources, opportunities and conversations. The platform is accessible via Sheroes.com and the SHEROES app. The SHEROES network is also home to Babygogo and Naaree platforms.

Nyaaya holds a champion’s profile on the SHEROES platform to spread awareness on legal rights of women.

eBhasha is the first company to provide comprehensive CAT Platform for Indian languages covering most of the mechanical and repetitive tasks. To facilitate the cognitive task of comprehension, Platform has a provision to get MT outputs from multiple MT systems available in the market. With its AI powered language processing platform, eBhasha aims to scale the productivity of translators by more than two to three times, specifically in the domains of Informational and Technical Contents, expecting to unleash the growth of Indic language translation market. This consequently would generate high demand of domain specific Professional Translators in Indic languages.

AALI(Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives) is a feminist legal advocacy and resource group addressing women’s issues through a rights-based perspective. AALI envisions an egalitarian social system that recognizes women as complete individuals and equal human beings through advocacy for women’s human rights. The organization undertakes research, activism, and direct response with a strong focus on violence against women and the right to choice in relationship decision-making. Since the organization’s founding in 1998, AALI has aimed to fulfill the following objectives.

Arpan is the largest NGO in India addressing the issue of child sexual abuse with over 120 professionals providing prevention and intervention services to children and adults irrespective of their socio-economic background, gender, sexuality, caste, religion and political affiliation. Arpan is scaling up its work and reach through partnerships with government bodies, school chains and NGOs pan India.