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Umang

'A Norm-shifting & Empowerment-focussed Model'

to address child/early marriage of adolescent girls in Jharkhand

Encouraging Outcomes

Evaluation findings show positive trend between baseline (Feb 2021) & endline (March 2023) surveys.

Intra-Household
Decisions

Improved say of mothers in their children's marriage decisions
Intra-household Decisions

Educational
Aspirations

Enhanced confidence among girls to study at least up to 12th grade and/or above
Educational Aspirations

Age at
Marriage

Increased agency & conviction among girls to resist pressure of early marriage
Age at Marriage
Baseine
Endline

Our Publications

Umang Modules

Modules for SHGs, VOs and CLFs

A holistic capacity-building package for women’s collectives to address child marriage

Project Brief

Umang Brief

An overview of Umang design, its journey, framework and key components

Case Studies

Empowerment Journeys

Lived experiences of mothers & daughters who shifted norms and found alternatives to child marriage

Process Document

Women Leadership

The rise of collective leadership among CLF members to address child marriage

Umang Film

We celebrate

Since its inception in 2019, Umang has been empowering mothers, who are able to stand against child/early marriage and nurture the aspirations of their daughters, thus enhancing prospects of a better future for 46,000+ adolescent girls in Godda & Jamtara.

Women capacitated

1,78,000

Women
capacitated

Girls re-enrolled
                    in schools

300+

Girls re-enrolled
in schools

Our Reach

7

Districts

43

Blocks

496290

Women

49629

SHGs

3947

VOs

197

CLFs