Breakthrough has set up a petition to request the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and the Central Board of Film Certification to run disclaimers on films that refer to have scenes of gender-based violence. Media and pop culture represent a stereotypical mindset that disregards the interests of women and highlights skewed gender norms. Till date, […]

Breakthrough is committed to accelerating progress to improve the lives of adolescents in India, especially girls. Mostly, adolescent girls are seen less as individuals and more as future mothers and wives. They often lack the information about the career choices and paths available to them which in turn results in diminishing their career aspirations. Realising […]

NCERT has acknowledged Breakthrough’s expertise in addressing gender issues and invited us to develop 3 out of 11 modules of Ayushman Bharat. This will also be translated in different languages. As a result now we have been asked to be a part of the National Resource Group to conduct TOT with their core group of trainers […]

One of Breakthrough’s current initiatives is to end early marriage in India. We commissioned the formative research in this study in order to fully understand the underlying context of and inform our programs on this issue. Early marriage is the norm in every area studied. The average age at marriage for girls was 15-17. There […]

Reframe is series by Breakthrough in order to look at different ways to rethink current scenario and come up with alternative solutions from a space of changing norms, policies and practices around various forms of issues- of violence against women. Breakthrough facilitated this multi-stakeholder conversation to address the issue of women’s work from both employees […]