NGO Documentation

Making Women Visible is a new project of SPARROW funded by Mama Cash, Amsterdam. Through this project we aim to document the work done by women's organisations by initiating a documentation, dissemination, communication and information process. SPARROW has always felt the need for such a project which will enable us to collect, archive, and compile information related to various organisations working on women's issues and keep it under one roof and share the material in a way that it increases the visibility of the work done by various organisations, gives easier accessibility and also helps to foster meaningful connections. We feel that this process of collection and dissemination is the first step towards consolidating the collective gains made by the women's movement in India and that it will help immensely in opening up a new dialogue and also stress the proactive role of an archives in the development process. This project will operate at many levels including collection of the various outreach material brought out by the organisations, information about their resource persons, photo documentation and audiovisual documentation. The information thus collected will be then be shared in various ways through our various outreach programmes like networking with students and other organisations, newsletter, publications and the website.

AALOCHANA

Aalochana, which means critical review, was set up as a non-profit resource centre for women in 1989 at Pune, Maharashtra. Their point of departure has been to re-examine and re-evaluate their lives, their experiences, their skills and their beliefs. Through research and documentation of all aspects of women's lives, especially of poor and low caste women, women's groups and organisations, they wish to redefine their perceptions and lives and visualise a future that will be emancipatory for all. Objectives: To collect and provide information on issues related to the social, political, economic, legal and personal aspects of women's lives. To document and research various aspects of women's lives. To disseminate the results of research and documentation through pamphlets, booklets, posters, slides, audio and video cassettes, films, lectures, seminars and camps. To network with women's groups, libraries and like-minded documentation and research centres at the regional, national and international levels. To set up a library and resource centre, which is easily accessible for women and where they can meet, read, discuss, work and take books home. To provide a congenial forum where activists, researchers, students, journalists and all those concerned with women's issues can meet and discuss matters of common concern. Since 1989 Aalochana has done a lot of work in the field they have chosen. We give below some samples of the work done by Aalochana.

Aalochana poster	Aalochana Booklet
Book	Book
Aalochana Brochure	Aalochana Brochure