NEN’s  Vision

To build a society in the north-east region that upholds women’s rights and gender justice.

NEN’s  Mission

a) To address discrimination and gender-based violence and create a culture of peace, in public and private spheres through active and informed agency of women and youth.
b) To strengthen women’s awareness, leadership and collective action in governance, public and community processes.
c) To sustain, conserve and protect the natural environment and strengthen bio-diversity with
women as knowledge holders and key actors with their communities.
d) To organise and support women and engage with youth in diverse livelihood activities for self-reliance and resilience to strengthen local economies.

 

Strategy

The strategic purpose of NEN is to create a gender-just society against the backdrop of inadequacies where access to entitlements and opportunities do not exist equally  amongst all communities in India’s North East Region. Therefore, NEN has aimed at women’s rights agenda to deal with  Gender Based Violence against Women,  Good Governance and State Accountability, Natural Resource Regeneration and  Livelihood & Resilience.

NEN undertakes the following  strategies to facilitate the above:

  1. Action oriented Research & Documentation
  2. Knowledge Building
  3. Community Development
  4. Interface with Government
  5. Partnership and Alliance Building

 

Objectives

The objects of the Society shall be to improve the pace and quality of developmental inputs among persons disadvantageously placed in society for enhancing their social and economic status. The Society shall, without any profit motive and without any distinction of caste, creed, colour, community or religion, inter alia, do the following:

  • Promote, develop and upgrade conceptual, organizational and management capacities of women’s groups, rural/urban voluntary organizations engaged in special work and developmental programmes in the north-east region of India.

  • Contribute towards improving the rural and decentralised sectors in the areas of economic empowerment, agriculture productivity, health care, gender-just awareness.

  • Organize those women/men involved in various economic sectoral work (weaving, agriculture, sericulture, fishery, small animal and livestock care, home-based work, dairy, handicrafts), for the purposes of preventing their exploitation and making them self-sufficient.

  • Provide opportunities for in-house training to intermediaries of voluntary organizations, especially women, in the field of development, economic, social and environmental activities.

  • Act as a link between north-eastern NGOs/women’s organizations and the Government agencies, placing the two directly in touch, to create public advocacy, effective communication and constructive output of those National/State policies & programmes that are targeted to women’s development.

  • Conduct research, studies and consultancy services to development projects towards meaningful understanding of the region, innovative inputs, and sharper technological focus.

  • Provide translation in different dialects, material on organizational strengthening, legal-aid manuals, credit-building, micro-entrepreneurial skills and any such material which would contribute to knowledge building for people in the development process.

  • Publish and print journals and articles for encouraging programmes for upliftment of society as mentioned herein before and to publish books, produce movies, video-films and souvenirs for the aforesaid purposes.

  • Promote and assist efforts at preserving ecosystems and bio-diversity of northeast India.