Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action Inc.

Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action (CREA) is a feminist international human rights organization based in the US and led by women from the Global South. Through this grant, CREA aims to publish a series called ‘Daughters of Soil’ to amplify the voices of small holder women farmers and food producers who are fighting some of the world's most pressing issues such has poverty, patriarchy, natural disasters and much more. The articles published under this series, will capture women's everyday reality, what drives their decisions, and how different those are from a man’s approach. It will illuminate the role of women farmers in food and nutritional security for their children while contributing towards India’s food sovereignty. It is an attempt to document the strong undercurrents of change in the agrarian sector including all food producers, including pastorals, fishers, and tribals.

Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action (CREA) is a feminist international human rights organization based in the US and led by women from the Global South. It was registered in New York and New Delhi at almost the same time with a  long-term vision to create a  strong global organization with origin from the Global South, that works at local, regional, and international levels. Since 2000, CREA has advanced human rights of structurally excluded people across the world, by building feminist leadership, strengthening movement, challenging unjust power structures and expanding sexual and reproductive freedoms. CREA envisions a more just and peaceful world where everyone realizes their autonomy, dignity and equality. This award supports the organization's general operations.

Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA) was established in 2000 in the US and in India with the aim to bring excluded voices of women and young people into processes of social change by building their leadership capacities. Building on an earlier project that uses phones to disseminate health information in Hindi, CREA is expanding the reach of the intervention from Delhi to Bihar, lharkhand, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. The organization is also organizing the content for use by others, preparing documentation of the intervention, and sharing lessons from the project with stakeholders at the national and state level as part of an advocacy strategy for scale up.

The grant to Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA) will support a project that seeks to advance the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls in India through an information and education program using Information, Communications and Technology (ICT). CREA will conduct a feasibility report for using ICT strategies, including mobile phones to share reproductive and sexual health information with youth. The findings of the report will inform the design, delivery and evaluation of a pilot project using mobile phones to disseminate health information among Hindi-speaking adolescent girls living in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

In support of the translation and publication of two editions of the journal Reproductive Health Matters in Hindi (over two years).