Aanchal Kapur — Co-Founder

Aanchal Kapur is a the founder of the non-profit organisation, Kriti: a development praxis and communication team (1999). Her core expertise includes training & facilitation, process documentation, communication & designing, programme planning & organisational development, volunteering for social change, social sector event coordination and management. Aanchal curates & organises documentary film screenings for diverse audiences, as a medium for social change. The Kriti Film Club, Our Diary and Gestures are three of Kriti team’s flagship initiatives, along with public education events. The Astitva programme in Dehradun supports working informal sector women with crèche and educational support for their children, livelihood linkages and domestic violence survivor support to the women. Aanchal has worked across grassroots India, South Asia & internationally since 1991. Selected published work: ‘Female Bodies: Domains of Control & Exclusion Responding to Ground Realities’, in Fluid Gender, Fluid Love, 2019; ‘Engendering Micro-Finance: A Capacity Building Toolkit for Micro Finance Institutions’, SIDBI-DFID, 2018; ‘Gendernama: A Curriculum for Sensitization of Boys & Men on Violence against Women’, Oxfam India, 2017; Right to Sanitation: A Gender Perspective, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, 2016; Our Work, Our Identities, Our Lives: Young Women’s Life Choices & Livelihoods in Poor Urban Areas, ActionAid International, 2015; A Rights-Based Approach to Realizing the Economic & Social Rights of Poor and Marginalized Women, A Synthesis of Lessons Learned, ICRW, 2006; From Thought to Action: Building Strategies on Violence against Women, Oxfam/ Kriti team, India, 2004; Women Workers Rights: Issues & Strategies, ILO, Geneva/ India, 1999. MSc. Development Studies (Gender, Social Policy and Planning), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE); M.A. Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Social Development Expert with a focus on gender issues and community engagement.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 32 yrs 7 mos