Institutions

SAMYAK is registered as a Communication and Resource Centre on gender, masculinities, health and development. Based in Pune (INDIA), it promotes gender equity and justice and advocates for the human rights of all individuals. Its capacity development initiatives are focused on linking critical epistemology with the praxis for transformative changes in rural and urban communities, especially men. SAMYAK's training programmes are not just aimed towards building knowledge and skills about the issues but also aim to build critical understanding to link issues of gender, masculinities, health and development with the larger structural and systemic issues like patriarchy, caste-class-religion-based discrimination and violence, globalization and economic changes, nationalism, militarization and peace building.