Janseva Gramin Vikas Va Shikshan Pratishthan

Janseva is a leading NGO in Central India working in the tribal belt of the Yavatmal, Chandrapur, Pune, Satara, Wardha, and Hingoli districts of Maha Read morerashtra. The organization has been mobilizing women in rural areas to form self-help groups in the Yavatmal and Wardha districts of Maharashtra. It organizes special training programs and co-ordinates workshops on issues such as gender and development, reproductive child health and care, adolescent girls awareness programs, etc. It also works with elected representatives of gram panchayats.  To cater to the needs of women in distress in rural areas, it operates two counseling centers that provide socio-legal assistance. Janseva works closely with the district administration, police, and judiciary. It is a member of the district consultative/vigilance committee. Janseva Gramin Vikas Va Shikshan Sanstha, meaning society for rural development and education, is a development organization. The central goal has been to bring women and the poor into the center stage of local governance and development processes, to place their respective concerns at the centre of villages, taluka, district-level planning, budgeting, etc. Janseva's role as a facilitating organization opens up strategic spaces for the participation of grassroots women's collectives, building and strengthening organizational capabilities through self-education, participation in local planning and governance mechanisms, demonstration, and scaling up of initiatives, and forging resource linkages with institutional actors. History Janseva was founded on 24th April 1996 as a non-government organization with a mission of assisting the tribal population in the Yavatmal district in the field of education and rural development. In 2007 it extended its work to the Wardha district. The primary focus is on empowering the poor, more particularly women, by enhancing the quality and dignity of their lives. It has partnered with government bodies, international organizations like UNICEF, Indo-German Watershed Development, and NABARD in various initiatives in empowering women, reducing the rate of school dropouts, improving farm practices, and strengthening grassroots organizations to foster sustainable development and improve livelihoods. It has been an active partner with NABARD in developing watersheds in the Yavatmal and Wardha districts. A distinguishing feature of Janseva is the strong grassroots level field network with a vast base of knowledge of local resources. This is supported by a managerial team endowed with a wide variety of conceptual and management skills for project planning, monitoring, and evaluation.