Buzz Women - enabling rural women to become climate champions in villages of rural Karnataka (partnering with Rainmatter Foundation since 2022)

Chaitra, a 35-year-old woman from Kadirenahalli village in Chikkaballapur district in January 2024, Chaitra’s life took a significant turn when she joined the Buzz Green program. The program, designed to bring awareness on climate change and support women to take close to home action, inspired Chaitra to start her own kitchen garden in February 2024. Now, through multi crop agriculture, she’s doing wonders! Click the link to know more!

Accurate data collection only strengthens the work and cause of civil society organisations. Buzz has seen how this has only enabled our work on multiple fronts. Here’s why and how you could build a robust data collection and management process. Also, tell us what methods you adopt.

“Are the husbands and the men in the family supportive towards the women expressing confidence, choice and agency?”, is a question we’re almost always asked while we explain the impact our community women are catalysing for themselves.

While the answer to this question is ‘yes’ and ‘no’, today we’ll focus on the ‘yes’. Here are 3 fabulous men who are supporting the women to craft their own lives.

It is stories like Triveni’s that remind us why we began our Self Shakti program 12 years ago - it’s to witness them stand by themselves without fear. Here is Triveni’s story!

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Civil society partnerships with government bodies are crucial because they ensure community needs are met while leveraging resources, expertise, and grassroots knowledge, leading to more effective and sustainable development outcomes. Together, we can address complex social issues and drive impactful change. Our government partnerships are especially crucial so that our first level mobilisation is done effectively and efficiently.

Here’s a video from Shri. Gangadaraih, a Child Development Project Officer of the Women and Child Department, from Chikkaballapura Taluk. He talks about why it’s important the two parties collaborate and how Buzz has collaborated with the Women and Child Department.