KHULASA

ANNUAL REPORT 2018

P U B L I S H E D B Y M I S A A L F O U N D A T I O N M - 5 , H A U Z K H A S , (R E A R S I D E , G R O U N D F L O O R) , A U R O B I N D O M A R G , N E W D E L H I - 1 1 0 0 1 6 , I N D I A

Misaal was founded on notions of justice, equality and pluralism. It seeks to

strengthen civil society among poor minorities and other deprived groups in the

poorest parts of India, to enable communities to access justice and rights, and

to encourage inter-group dialogue and understanding.

Misaal is committed to a just, equal, democratic, and pluralistic India. It envisions

a society where individuals and groups – however they define themselves – have

an equal chance in life, as empowered citizens, and where they live, side by side,

in peace and harmony, as members of the same national community. We aspire

to empower minorities and other marginalized communities to overcome the

significant barriers they face in obtaining justice and access to services.

R E A C H U S W E B S I T E : W W W . M I S A A L . N G O E M A I L : I N F O @ M I S A A L . N G O F A C E B O O K : M I S A A L F E L L O W S H I P

Contents

Sl. No. Chapter Title Pg. No.

1. Director’s Message 1

2. Introduction 2

Misaal Foundation: Responding to Exclusion through

Equipping the Excluded

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Misaal: The Organisation 2

Our Verticals 4

2. Implementing the 2018 Plan

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Lessons from the Experience – for Deepening and Sustaining

Impact

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3. Project – Wise Reports 11

Community empowerment, Capacity building and

Mobilisation

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Technology-based Solutions to Delivering Impact at Scale 19

Targeted Violence related Documentation, Victim Support

and Advocacy

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Minorities in South Asia 27

4. Plans for 2019 and Beyond 29

Project specific plans for 2019 30

5. Annexure I: Misaal Changemakers

6. Annexure II: Income and Expenditure State (2017 – ’18)

7. Annexure II: Income and Expenditure State

(For the period 01-04-18 to 31-12-18)

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Director's Message

2018 has been a good year for Misaal. We deepened our engagement with communities we

serve by responding to their most critical needs – legal aid, emergency support, and access to

services, social security and opportunities. We also expanded the scope of our engagement,

by entering new sites and engaging new communities – in Haryana, Rajasthan, Assam and

Bihar. Everywhere, the emphasis has been on strengthening our own ability and that of our

‘change-makers’ to enable sustainable impact. Training, capacity-building, alliance-making,

documenting and lesson-learning are our new buzzwords now, as we enter the fifth year of

Misaal’s inception. Alongside, we have grown as a team, on the ground directly engaged with

communities, at state and regional levels, linking up to a wide stakeholder community, and

nationally with our NRC team and network of collaborators, each node, a ‘misaal’ to the

other and the wider society. We have also taken early steps to expand our reach to across

South Asia, working with minority-led and focused groups and networks.

Enclosed is a snapshot of our work in 2018.

We enter 2019 with new hopes and resolves. We plan to further strengthen ourselves by way

of technical capacity and to strengthen bonds to local communities and local and national

networks. Ultimately, the big push we plan for 2019 is to scale up our impact and make it

sustainable: through bringing new youth leaders within our fold to expand the changemakers’

network, transfer capacity directly to the community, and through use of technology with a

more user-friendly version of our mobile app (Misaal: Haq ka Saathi) aggregating helpful

information and enabling collective action. Elsewhere, the Citizens Against Hate platform

will see greater engagement locally, with lawyers, para-legals and affected families, and the

South Asia Collective will see us working closely with minority-led networks from across the

South Asia region, documenting violations and pushing inclusion.

Sajjad Hassan

January, 2019

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Chapter I

Introduction

Misaal Foundation: Responding to Exclusion through Equipping

the Excluded

Founded on principals of justice, equality and pluralism, Misaal Foundation seeks to

strengthen civil society among poor minorities and other deprived groups in the poorest parts

of India and South Asia region, to enable communities to access justice, services and

opportunities. It also works to create awareness on democratic processes, increase civic

engagement and encourage inter-group dialogue and understanding. Ultimately, we see

ourselves as a minority rights resource centre, training human resource and mobilising

networks, testing prototypes of delivery, producing knowledge and insights, and instigating

debate on the most important questions affecting marginalised minorities and society at large.

Misaal: The Organisation

The New Delhi-based National Resource Centre (NRC) provides the backend support that is

needed to deliver the agenda, planning and coordinating Misaal’s work. It focuses on

capacity development of our teams and of communities we work with; partnership building

with stakeholders; development of innovative models of delivery and knowledge production.

This last is based on our own experiences with delivery as well as through ground-breaking

research on challenges faced by marginalised minorities and the successful pathways to

overcoming those.

On-ground changemakers working with communities to educate and mobilise; signpost and

handhold (to access justice, civic entitlements, social services and other opportunities);

advocacy with stakeholders outreach with local networks for greater community resilience,

all contributing to building community capacity that is organic and sustainable.

Overall, the effort is to foster participatory democratic values and progressive policies in

favour of (religious/ethnic/linguistic/sexual) minorities and economically disadvantaged

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sections.However, community engagement remains a central focus of our work. Our

changemakers and mentors work against all odds to empower their communities and build

resilience. We strongly believe that change will come from the ground and therefore, seek to

build the capacities of our change makers, imagining them as youth champions leading

change.

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Our Verticals

Misaal Foundation currently has four verticals:

India:

Socio-economic rights focused community capacity development and network

strengthening; and policy based documentation, tracking and advocacy

Justice and legal rights based documentation, tracking, policy advocacy; and legal aid

and rehabilitation support to survivors

Technology-based models of delivering impact at scale

South Asia-wide:

South Asia-wide documentation and tracking; capacity building minority led groups and

advocacy for improved human/minority rights outcomes

(i) Misaal's socio-economic focused work is currently concentrated in 4 states -

Haryana, UP, Bihar and MP (http://www.misaal.ngo). Our field change-makers,

mostly women, located in rural North India and in areas with high minority

concentration, consists of state supervisors, ‘fellows’, Taleem (education),

teachers, Rozgaar (livelihood) trainers and legal rights mobilisers. The fellows focus

on empowering their communities through basic entitlements related work which

enables members to better access relevant schemes and services. Rozgaar trainers

impart vocational skills to adult women (we are in the process of establishing a

training centre for only widows in Bhopal) to develop their capacities so that they

can participate gainfully in the market. They also act as mobilisers to collectivise

community members (as SHGs), to engage in micro-enterprise. Taleem teachers use

participatory pedagogy with ‘dropped out’ children, imparting basic skills –literacy

in Hindi and English and numeracy. Misaal's legal rights mobilisers hold monthly

legal aid awareness camps cum clinics with communities they serve, to educate

members on their rights. Misaal's mobilisers and circle of volunteers are agents of

change that help us engage with local communities in an organic way.

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(ii) On the justice front, we provide direct legal help to victims/survivors of targeted

violence/ hate crimes, besides documenting and tracking violence, hate crime and

other targeted exclusions. To strengthen this work, Misaal initiated the Citizens

Against Hate platform (CAH - http://citizensagainsthate.org), and acts as its

secretariat coordinating intervention with multiple partners. CAH provides legal aid

on lynchings and vigilante violence, extrajudicial killings, custodial deaths and on

exclusion from citizenship through NRC and Foreigners’ Tribunal processes in

Assam. Misaal also provides rehabilitation support to victims and survivor families

of the different forms of bias-violence, through raising resources and donations.

Reports produced by CAH, and which spurred our victim support and legal

advocacy work, include:

‘Lynching Without End: Fact Finding on Religiously Motivated Vigilante

Violence’, Sept. 2017 and February 2018

‘Organised Communal Violence In Bihar: Report Of Fact Finding Investigation

Into the Violence and State’s Response’, March 2018

‘Countering the Silence: Citizens’ Report on Extrajudicial Executions in Uttar

Pradesh and Haryana, India’, April 2018.

‘Without End: Report Of Hapur Fact Finding And Overview Of Recent Anti-

Muslim Mob Lynchings’, June 2018

‘Making Foreigner: Report On NRC Updation In Assam and the Risk Of Mass

Statelessness’. November 2018

Advocacy by CAH:

We were on a panel at a side event on ‘Shrinking Democratic Space in India’ at

UN Human Rights Council’s 37th session (Geneva, 2nd March 2018), organised

by World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) together with multiple Geneva-

based human rights advocacy groups.

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We led submission of a civil society statement to the Government of India set up

High Level Committee to formulate an anti-lynching law, June 2018

We have been supporting the consuls for the petitioners in the Tehseen

Poonawalla vs. Union of India case on lynchings and Assam Public Works case

on the updating of the National Register of Citizens in Assam, providing from-

ground insights and inputs, as well as trying to see that

We supported the UN Forum on Minority Issues, 31st session, Geneva, Nov. 2018

(on the theme of statelessness), and side events on the subject, based on our work on

NRC updating in Assam.

(iii) Misaal initiated and convenes the South Asia Collective, of human/minority rights

experts and activists from across the region, acting as its secretariat. SAC leads

production of the South Asia State of Minorities report, to systematically document

the condition of South Asia’s minorities and to use the evidence for advocacy for

improved outcomes. The 2018 edition of the report -on the specific theme of socio-

economic rights of minorities – in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal,

Pakistan and Sri Lanka, was released at the UN Forum on Minority Issue, Office of

High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva. (http://sacollective.misaal.ngo).

(iv) A key challenge we have faced in delivering to the excluded is of scale – costs and

human resource considerations mean we are able only to serve small cohorts, and

not go beyond piloting and model building. To address this perennial concern, we

have been experimenting with technology solutions, specifically mobile app, to

aggregate information (on laws, public schemes and services and opportunities).

‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi’ mobile app was launched as a pilot in Banda district in

2017. On the back of successful results of the pilot, we are currently developing

‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi 2.0’ as an online app with expanded functionalities, going

beyond information to also provide a platform for actors to connect to each other,

enabling users to improve their life condition. We plan to launch version ‘Misaal:

Haq ka Saathi 2.0’ in April 2019.

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Chapter II

Implementing the 2018 Plan

Outputs and achievements

(i) Misaal was able to expand its Fellowship Programme (Fellowship, Taleem and Rozgaar)

in further communities, providing Misaal’s package of services (of information,

facilitation, legal rights, education and skills) to multiple sites, developing an integrated

model that is standardized to enable scaling up:

In Nuh, Haryana where a Hub was established in Punhana (access to civic

entitlements and justice) and a Taleem Centre was established in Pemakheda.

In Budhana, UP Misaal has been able to establish a Hub that anchors years of work in

the local communities displaced during the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013. This Hub has

been established with a Fellow, Taleem and local Self Help Group (SHG) meeting

space.

In Banda, a Hub started in September with Partner Vidhya Dham Samiti

In partnership with Al Fiza, Misaal is providing Taleem to school drop-outs and

vocational skills to poor women to raise their incomes

In Assam, providing legal aid to victims of NCR process, who are at risk of being

made stateless.

In Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh working with victims of UC gas tragedy, supporting them

in their struggles for justice and access. In September, Misaal’s has established a

widow’s silai centre with the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan.

In Phulwarisharif, in July the work of the two fellows there was split and 10 wards

each was given to them. In September they moved into a new building and hub was

started.

In September Youth Clubs (monthly trainings) and a new Volunteer strategy (Rs.

1000 per volunteer, 10 volunteer) was put in place and budgeted.

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(ii) We implemented ‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi’ mobile app (1.0) pilot to practically help the

poor apply for availing government schemes and laws, and for them to use grievance

redressal tools to ensure delivery:

All Misaal facilitation centres or areas where Misaal Fellows work have helped

communities better access entitlements using ‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi’ app.

(iii) Misaal led the formation of the Citizens Against Hate platform, and anchors it. Through

this it has been able to establish platform which both responds to hate crime tracking and

produces research for advocacy.

Responding to rising hate crime against minorities, establish a system for

documenting and tracking hate crime against minorities, in UP and Bihar, and

elsewhere. Outputs would be periodic tracking reports and in depth studies on various

aspects of hate crime.

Provide legal aid to victims of anti-minority hate crime, to obtain justice.

Help engender inclusive platforms, to track, advocate against, and respond to hate

crime.

(iv) We have been successful in consolidating South Asia wide advocacy

Strengthen the South Asia Collective, to act as a regional voice for minorities and the

marginalized

Lead production of 2017 edition of South Asia State of Minorities Report

Seek support for expanding Misaal grassroots model (of community capacity

building) to other South Asian countries

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Lessons from the Experience -

for Deepening and Sustaining Impact

Socio-economic rights-based work:

(i) We must deepen contact with communities (volunteers, skills and rights based trainings

etc.), so that there is adequate connect within the community to re-establish work with a

new change maker.

(ii) Misaal realised the need for better qualitative assessment of work done and the impact of

this work. This made us change our reporting structures and formats considerably,

starting Jun2 2018

(iii)‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi’ app was implemented in a rural area. It was realised that

whereas there has been data penetration in rural communities, smart phones are not

available in large numbers. The learning was that Misaal App at this stage is best suited

for semi-rural minority concentrated districts.

Justice (Insaaf) work:

A multi-stakeholder assessment of our Insaaf work identified the following improvements.

(i) More capacity building is needed for lawyers, coordinators and fellows in terms of both

technical legal skills and developing their leadership potential. we acknowledge this need

and would want to develop specific training formats for building the capacities of

different stakeholders that help implement its work.

(ii) Better methods for collecting and relaying information/data at State level were needed.

We are trying to design processes that can help us identify relevant stakeholders,

incorporate them into its existing network and sustain this network.

(iii)Need to incorporate innovative practices in our legal work – for example, safe houses,

migration to safer locations of key witnesses, handholding and protecting families by

addressing fear and conflict/compromise issues.

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(iv) Need to develop rapid response mechanisms and processes organisationally so that

immediate interventions are possible as is regular and thorough follow-ups. Misaal is in

the process of strengthening its local network of lawyers, activists, HRDs and media

persons who will meet on a monthly basis at state-level to discuss and take action on the

hate crime work. Further, we plan to develop procedure and protocols for immediate

fact-finding with a team of dedicated experts in wake of a hate crime. The finding will be

given to supporters and journalists in media for bringing visibility to an incident.

(v) At community or individual activists/HRD level it was noted that there was a need a full

time legal aid coordinator to monitor and follow-up with local lawyers. This has been a

challenge as we have not been able to sustain National or State level legal coordinators

who are also full-time lawyers with private practices. A new Legal Aid Coordinator has

been brought on board.

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Chapter III

Project – wise Reports

Community empowerment, Capacity building and Mobilisation

Misaal Facilitation Centre model and Scaling-Up

Misaal is scaling up its work, both in terms of new sites and its reach.

(i) Misaal is moving towards a model of facilitation centres. We are planning to rent small

spaces in localities we work in and equip these with necessary facilities, to act as

information and training centres. These spaces will be used as a civic space for the

communities around - to be used by youth for trainings, meetings and for accessing

information on schemes and opportunities. These centres will also

host Taleem and Rozgaar sessions. These will be staffed by the Fellow, Teacher and

Trainer. The centre will scale up our engagement in an area by providing a space where

communities can come to access information and participate in trainings. In addition to

supervising the functioning of the Facilitation Centre, Fellows will continue their on-

field community engagement through regular community meetings, as outreach and to

identify issues and work out solutions. Our intent is to build capacity and mobilise

communities to take action directly through advocacy and campaigns.

(ii) Misaal imparts trainings and capacity support by raising awareness on rights and justice,

and handholding individuals to access constitutionally guaranteed rights. Towards this,

Misaal is developing Changemakers’ Manuals, immediately, four in number: Reflection

& Documentation, Access to Justice, Access to Rights, Entitlements & Opportunities,

and one specifically focused on Women and Child, cross-theme. All are imagined as

practical how-to manuals, in accessible language and to be used as resource guide that

could be delivered through a series of trainings and handholding sessions.

(iii) Various interventions to consolidate capacity of Misaal changemakers’ network as well

as that of the communities we serve are being made. A training cum capacity building

programme has been devised for field workers and the community, as a complement to

the Changemakers’ Manuals, delivered through a set monthly training programme.

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Monthly legal aid awareness camps for local communities are being organised as a

regular feature, to raise awareness on issues related to exclusion and access, women’s

and child rights. System of State Advisory Group (SAG) meetings - with our network of

field mobilisers engaging with Misaal state-level mentors and advisors on a monthly

basis, to reflect on work done, share and understand emerging challenges, and a forum

for problem solving at the local/state level – is being strengthened where it has been

ongoing (Bihar for example.), and revived where it has fallen in disuse (Uttar Pradesh),

or initiated (Assam, Mewat). It is planned to use these occasions also to organise regular

catch up training sessions for changemakers, using SAG member’ skills.

(iv) Efforts are also on to expand Misaal footprint within communities, through our

changemakers mentoring and nurturing volunteer youth, so as to help build their capacity

for grassroots work, also helping with running the Facilitation Centres, carrying out

community outreach, and helping with Taleem and Rozgaar works.

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Services & Entitlements

Misaal’s flagship Fellowship Programme mentors a youth from the local community as a

future leader equipped with both the skills of community mobilisation, outreach and

advocacy with stakeholders, and the knowledge of public schemes and opportunities.

Misaal’s Fellows are local mobilisers who oversee identification of local issues through

community meetings, household surveys and FGDs. They help address these issues by

improving communities’ access to entitlements. Through this process of learning by doing,

they help build community capacity and resilience to respond to local challenges, aiming to

make it sustainable. Misaal’s Fellows form the backbone of the organisation.

They also mentor local volunteers, Taleem teachers and Rozgaar trainers.

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Please find below a list of the number of community members reached by our fellows and

other changemakers in the year 2018:

TableI

Misaal Fellowship outreach – number of persons reached (rounded off)

UP

Banda 700

Shamli, Budhana 600

Mewat (Rajasthan and Haryana)

Punhana, Nuh 1150

Alwar, Rajasthan 70

Bihar

Madhubani 50

Vaishali 600

Patna (Phulwarisharif) 3000

Assam

Barpeta – serving Brahmaputra valley

districts (Since September ’18)

150,000

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Taleem

Primary beneficiaries of Misaal’s Taleem Centres are minors from Muslim (and some Dalit)

communities who do not have access to schools or have dropped out. These centres function

for on average 3 hours a day, providing basic literacy and numeracy skills. The subjects

taught include Maths, English, Urdu and Hindi. The idea behind the Taleem Centres is to

mainstream the children into functional schools, both private and public. We were able to use

RTE in the year 2018 towards getting a few students admitted into private schools.

The centres usually operate in an one room space and are provided with white or black

boards, books between class 5th

and 8th

, basic stationary, notebooks, floor mats etc. Taleem

teachers hold monthly outreach activities in their centres or nearby school. Misaal’s Taleem

students, along with students from schools near the centre or from the community where the

centre is located participate. Usually these are in the form of competitions – quiz, GK, art etc.

The winners are given small prizes.

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The teachers also hold regular parent teacher meetings to encourage parents to send their

children to the centres, and to engage on education for their wards.

TableII

Taleem Centres (Number of children)

UP

Banda – 1 (Sulkhanki Purwa) 15

Banda – 2 (town) 34

Jaunpur 47

Shamli 36

Mewat

Punhana 42

Bihar

Patna City 42

Phulwarisharif 62

Madhubani 93

MP

Bhopal 40

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Rozgaar

The primary beneficiaries of Misaal’s vocational trainings centres are women belonging to

the Muslim community. Muslim women are provided greater access to entitlements, services

and legal justice, through which they undertake civic engagement, exercise citizenship, and

derive tangible benefits in the form of schemes, benefits and legal justice.

Through improved skills and training; and access to means of production, Muslim women

also progress to greater access to economic participation. Better exercise of financial

decision-making by deprived Muslims women at home and at work results in their greater

control over economic decision-making. Exercise of citizenship and improved economic

decision making autonomy, creates grounds for women to challenge established gender

systems, being traditional roles, expectations and norms. Education and awareness, and the

exercise of women role models, as well as changed attitude among men, result in gender

systems decisively challenged. Together, civic participation, economic independence and a

less concentrated hold of traditional gender norms result in Muslim women able to play more

active political roles in society, exercising decision making at home, in community and wider

society. This results in increased participation and mainstreaming of Muslim women from

marginalised backgrounds.

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Each Rozgaar batch is 6 months and at the end of the batch, fellows try to register Self Help

Groups (SHGs) with the government for those women who are interested. Misaal is tries to

register Self Help Groups (SHGs) at the end of each batch, if the women are interested. For

example, we were able to establish 3 SHGs in Budhana, UP, this year. All three got contracts

from the market for various products and were able to earn an average of Rs.3000 per person

from this first set of orders.

TableIII

Rozgaar Centres for Skill Development –

Number of trainees

UP

Banda 25

Bihar

Patna (Phulwarisharif) 32

MP

Bhopal – 1 15

Bhopal - 2 (Swabhiman Kendra) 25

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Technology-based Solutions to Delivering Impact at Scale

Misaal engages in empowering communities through easy access to information.

Complementing Misaal’s Hub scale up model access to information will be better facilitated

by ‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi’ mobile application. ‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi’ launched in 2017

uses digital literacy as a conduit to spread awareness on public schemes. Based on the users’

demographic data - age, gender, domicile, caste etc., it filters relevant information of both

central and state based schemes – what the scheme is, nodal authority, documents required to

file for entitlements under respective schemes. Currently, Misaal is developing a second

version to this mobile app. In addition to updating information on schemes, the new version

will include information of basic services (both public and private) when the user enters their

exact location (in addition to other demographic stats used in the prior version). These will

include hospitals, schools, anganwadis, pharmacies, blood banks, ambulance services etc.

The broad themes under which we are surveying for data include - Health, Education, Well

Being (Sanitation, Housing, Nutrition etc.) and Women and Child safety. The second

version will be designed specifically to cater to areas we work in and for use by women. The

app interface will be designed to facilitate use by non-literate women in domestic space and

the information will be made available in audio format also, which can be downloaded and

used later. A new app developer has also been brought on boards and a new app skeleton was

developed. A temporary fulltime researcher was hired to look into different State level and

National level schemes.

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Targeted Violence related Documentation, Victim Support and

Advocacy

Insaaf (Citizens Against Hate - CAH)

Central to Misaal mission is its access to justice work, i.e. we provide direct legal help to

victims/survivors of hate crimes and our legal fellows help us collect necessary

documentation on cases. Misaal was a founding member of Citizens Against Hate (CAH)

which was established in July 2017, with Misaal as its secretariat

(http://citizensagainsthate.org).

CAH provides legal aid on lynchings, extrajudicial killings, custodial deaths, sexual violence

and other communal violence. Since 2017, Misaal has been providing direct legal support on

20 cases of hate crimes – lynchings and sexual violence.

The years 2017-18 saw the highest numbers of beef related anti-Muslim lynchings across

India.1 CAH has been able to provide legal aid and rehabilitation help to victim families with

the help of its staff (local activists) and network of HRDs and lawyers. In the process of

working with the families, our staff has learnt how to negotiate local State level government

stakeholders, how to follow-up on the criminal justice process (including what IPC and CrPC

sections should be included in FIRs, accessing medical and post-mortem reports etc.) and

how to identify and work with local lawyers.

Further, CAH’s local network of lawyers conduct regular legal-aid-clinic-cum-awareness-

camps in local communities of Haryana, UP and Bihar. These are conducted as community

meetings and have been implemented since the beginning of this year. Starting November

2018, regular monthly calendars of legal-aid-cum-awareness-camps at grassroots level – i.e.

in communities where Misaal already does rights based work – were developed. So far most

of the clinic-cum-awareness-camps have been on domestic violence, sexual assault, divorce

and dowry. The beneficiaries of these camps have been Muslims and Dalit populations.

The networks that CAH has been able to establish in order to provide legal assistance to

families affected by hate crimes has enabled it to develop a personal relationship not only

with local HRDs, activists and lawyers but also with families. Drawing on Zakat and

1Lynching without End, a Report byCitizens Against Hate

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donations, Misaal has been able to provide small one time grants of Rs. 25,000 to 7 families

in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The beneficiaries had either lost the primary

breadwinner in their family or were in a situation where the primary breadwinner was injured

and needed immediate medical assistance. All these families consisted of multiple dependents

(wife, parents and minor children).

Activities undertaken under Insaaf programme (2017-18)

August 2017:

Misaal staff helped track hate crimes in their states, enabling families to pursue these

matters legally and coordinating on advocacy/campaigns around these

with relevant government authorities or civil society organisations.

Based on its field research CAH released ‘Lynching Without End’ which was referred to

at a civil society consultations around India's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the

HRC in Geneva last year.

National Legal Coordinator’s position was created to coordinate on legal issues.

March 2018:

We were on a panel at a side event on ‘Shrinking Democratic Space in India’ at UN

Human Rights Council’s 37th

session (Geneva, 2nd

March 2018), organised by World

organisation against torture (OMCT) together with multiple Geneva-based human rights

advocacy groups. Our intervention was on targeted hate crime against minorities and

Dalits, using as material CAH’s documentation of hate crime.

April 2018:

A workshop was held in Jindal Law School to discuss 14 lynching cases in Haryana, UP

and Jharkhand. Lawyers representing victim families were invited and a roundtable was

held.

We produced and released report into series of communal violence incidents around Ram

Navami festival, across multiple districts in Bihar (and Bengal) – ‘Organised Communal

violence in Bihar’ (March 2018). Report released in Patna on 27th

April 2018, in meeting

with Patna based lawyers and social workers. Agreed in meeting that CAH would offer

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to take up, on victims’ behalf, cases in Aurangabad and Nawada districts, sites of most

state failure both to provide security and for access to justice for victims of violence,

including of youth falsely accused in the cases. Two local lawyers have been identified

in the districts, and a state level network of lawyers and social workers formed to provide

advocacy support.

May 2018:

We produced and released report on detailed fact finding into extra judicial executions in

UP and Haryana – ‘Countering the Silence’. This report, result of 6 months of work,

investigates police encounter killings in the two states, in recent years, using as material,

family testimonies and examination of legal documents in 17 such cases in UP and 12 in

Haryana, to try to draw broader conclusions. The report was released on 7th

May 2018,

with 10 victim families speaking to the press on their travails. The report and the release

were covered very widely in the press.

Earlier, on 6th

May, ’18, we helped the families file a complaint with Chairman and

members, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for investigating the cases in

Uttar Pradesh and for relief. This was the result of many months of CAH and Aman

Biradari Trust’s engagement with victim families. The complaint was supported by

another by civil society groups – led by CAH – demanding action from NHRC. A direct

result of the advocacy (the detailed documentation and complaint) has been NHRC

ordering investigation into the UP cases. In June 2017, NHRC took cognisance of a

complaint submitted by CAH on the basis of this report and has issued an independent

investigation into 17 cases in UP.

Misaal established a legal team in Bihar to follow-up on hate crimes in the state with a Legal

Coordinator in Patna, a Legal Fellow in Aurangabad and a Legal Fellow in Nawada. Legal

Coordinator is following up on a rape case of a minor girl in Sitamarhi. Bihar Legal Fellow

Aurangabad is following up on the communal violence in March 2018. Legal Fellow Nawada

is following up on a rape case in Nawada.

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June 2018:

A set of complaints was submitted on 13 cases to the special procedures at the OHCHR.

CAH conducted a fact-finding on the Hapur lynching on targeted lynchings of Muslims

in India in May and June, as there was a spike in anti-Muslim lynchings in these two

months. The cases in this report include Hapur (UP), Satna (MP), Godda (JH), Ramgarh

(JH) and Tripura.

July 2018:

A civil society consultation was held in Delhi based on the report that Misaal drafted on

the spike in lynching incidents in May and June that year.

Misaal created a relief fund for victim families. As most of families were rendered

without livelihood, and also needed financial support for following up legal case, a lump

sum support of Rs. 25000 was provided to the most needy. Money was raise through

Misaal’s donor network. Most beneficiaries from the relief fund were women and

children in affected families.

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a. Sanno Bano (w/o Shakeel ), Satna, MP (Maihar, 17-05-18), Shakeel (38) injured.

Needed monetary help for medical treatment and legal aid on the cross case against

him and the deceased, Siraj.

b. Shahindunisha (w/o Siraj Khan), Satna, MP (Maihar, 17-05-18), Siraj Khan (45)

killed. Mother and son have no source of livelihood. The son is autistic.

c. Marayam Khatoon, Mother of a minor gang-raped and murdered in Sitamarhi,

Bihar, (21-04-2018). Father, Md. Hashim, was a daily wage worker in Mumbai. Did

not return to work. Mother works daily wage too. Parents are poor, have three

children to take care of. Trips to courts and police stations cost money.

d. Fulo Khatoon (w/o of Tauhid Ansari), Ramgarh, Jharkhand (Chitarpur, 19-06-18).

Tauhid Ansari. (45) killed. Widow suffering serious mental illness. Three children,

eldest 14, boy, did some work. Rest two, younger girls. No source of income.

Needed maintenance grant at least till they find some livelihood for themselves.

Also education for children.

e. Sohna Bibi (w/o Murtaza Ansari), Godda, Jharkhand (Bankatti, 13-06-18) Murtaza

Ansari, killed. Three children - two boys & one girl (all under 4 years of age). Both

need maintenance grant at least till they find some livelihood for themselves. Also

education for children.

f. Sakina Khatoon (w/o Chiraguddin Ansari), Godda, Jharkhand, (Bankatti, 13-06-

18), Chiraguddin Ansari, killed. Chiraguddin Ansari had nine children (two children

- one boy and one girl - are over 18). None are studying or working.

30 RTI applications were made to various authorities including DGPs and State Home

Secretaries, to follow up on lynching cases. These RTIs were intended to collect data on

IPC 153a and 153b, incitement of communal violence though hate speech, social media

and the preparedness and role of the police in curbing this.

Supreme Court of India issued orders (July 2018) instructing Government of India to

formulate a lynching law. CAH drafted and submitted a civil society statement to the

High Level Committee that was to inform a group of cabinet ministers on what should be

included in this probable law.

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September 2018:

Since 2017, Misaal has been providing free legal aid to victims of the ‘D’ voter and

Foreigners Tribunal (FT) process in Assam, working with a local lawyer in Guwahati.

Through this help, we were able to contest FT’s declaring families ‘foreigner’.

working with other civil society groups, we provided inputs to a national process led by

the Supreme Court on improving working of criminal justice system for victims of

lynchings, including laws to prevent targeted violence.

Alongside, we worked with litigants in the on-going case on lynchings in the Supreme

Court (Tehseen Poonawalla) to analyse compliances filed by state governments on SC’s

directions on the matter, including preventive, remedial and punitive measures, and

propose award of compensation.

with the help of a local lawyer, we helped procure bail for one lynching victim in Satna,

MP. Having close relationships with lawyers on field helped us get instant legal help to

the family. As mentioned, Misaal has been nurturing a strong network of lawyers at

local, high court and Supreme Court level.

We conducted a rapid fact finding visit to Assam to review the working of the updating

of National Register of Citizens, and identify ways to intervene at policy level and in the

litigation on-going in the Supreme Court. This was concentrated in Guwahati and

Barpeta districts.

October 2018:

Misaal initiated a study in the Alwar district of Rajasthan to understand the socio-economic

impact of cow related hate crimes on the livelihood of minorities in that region that have

traditionally engaged in animal husbandry.

With the help of its lawyers in Supreme Court, we created a proforma application that

would aid local network of lawyers to file applications based on directions of the

Supreme Court on lynchings, holding lower courts and Nodal Officers accountable.

These RTIs will be used to report data to the SC on state compliance to its Tehseen

Poonawalla vs. Union of India verdict on lynchings. The court has mandated monitoring

processes under Preventive, Remedial and Punitive measures in this judgement. This ties

in with the follow-up action in December where 13 applications sent to Nodal Officers.

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With the help of the aforementioned network, we also sent certified copies of the July

2018 Supreme Court directions (preventive, remedial and punitive measures to prevent

lynchings and vigilante violence) to our local network of lawyers to help operationalise

the directions at the local level, in trial courts and local administrative bodies.

We provided specialist inputs in an interaction with media on hate crime organised by

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.

A second workshop was held with Jindal Law School to discuss lynching cases in

Haryana, Rajasthan, UP, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. Lawyers representing victim

families from all states participated and a roundtable was held. Further, a discussion on

the July Supreme Court ruling and the strategy going ahead was discussed.

November 2018:

Two main accused in Sitamarhi (Bihar) gang rape and murder case of a minor were

released on bail.

Based on the discussions at the Jindal Clinic, a questionnaire was designed to update

case details. Misaal State Supervisors visited each family of lynching victims that Misaal

is assisting and updated the cases by filling the questionnaires. A PIL is planned to be

filed in each High Court, based on these updates, to seek their directions to enforce SC

directions on lynchings.

Supreme Court heard a case on the constitutionality on NRC in Assam. Misaal is

working with the litigants, to ensure due process is followed, and justice provided.

We completed our fact finding report on the Assam NRC updation process, and

published the findings in our report ‘Making Foreigner’ analysing the NRC process

including the claims and objections process and the role of the Supreme Court.

We made statements at UN Forum on Minority Issues, Geneva, and an official side

event, respectively, held on 29th

and 30th

November, on the NRC matter.

December 2018:

Applications on 13 lynching cases we were tracking in UP, Haryana and Rajasthan that

were updated in the month of November were sent to respective Nodal Officers/SPs in to

follow up on Tehseen Poonawalla vs. Union of India Supreme Court verdict compliance.

Discussions for establishing a Misaal facilitation centre in Barpeta, Assam, were

finalised. This centre will cater towards filing of NRC claims and objections, following

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up in Foreigners Tribunals and helping in data collection for submissions at Supreme

Court Level. Towards this end, four mobilisers have been engaged to facilitate

submission of claims forms by those excluded in the draft NRC, alongside also document

pathways to statelessness in the state.

Bail applications of five main accused in Shahrukh Khan lynching case (August 2018,

Bareilly, UP) was rejected in the trial court. Now CAH will help Shahrukh’s lawyer

access competent legal counsel in Allahabad High Court argue against the appeal filed

by the accused.

CAH started tracking a beef related aggravated physical assault case against a Dalit

contractor and Muslim driver which happened in November in Haryana. Both are in

custody in Faridabad currently. CAH will file bail applications at local and Chandigarh

High Court level through its network of lawyers when the Courts get back into session in

January 2019.

Minorities in South Asia

The South Asia Collective (SAC) is a group of activists and organisations that strive to

establish peace and rights respecting societies in South Asia. The collective came together in

2015 to document conditions of South Asia’s minorities – Linguistic, Religious, Caste based,

Ethnic, Sexual and Gender based etc. The purpose is to use this documentation to raise

awareness about minority issues and improve minority outcomes in South Asia. Many like-

minded groups are now part of this platform. Building on the success of the platform, support

to small minority groups so that they can improve their capacities and better their reach.

The objective of SAC is twofold. Firstly, it intends to create a strong people to people support

network for groups engaged in minority rights or human rights work in a region fraught with

political instability. Secondly, to see the establishment of a minority and human rights charter

at South Asia level and to ensure that domestic and regional mechanisms are created to

ensure the implementation of these.

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South Asia State of Minority Reports

SAC collaborates to produce a research report called the South Asia State of Minority Report.

The inaugural State of Minorities Report was released in 2016 as an attempt create a baseline

for minority groups of minority rights regimes, mechanisms and practices by countries in

South Asia. It Included chapters on Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri

Lanka.

South Asia’s minorities are disproportionately represented in those who are marginalised

socio-economically and who face discrimination on basic questions of access. The South

Asia State of Minorities Report 2018 seeks to understand the processes of discrimination and

collate data on socio-economic marginalisation. We believe that creating knowledge on these

exclusions will help us address larger root causes behind anti-minority human rights

violations that are endemic in South Asia.

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Chapter IV

Plans for 2019 and Beyond

Having seeded and stabilised ourselves, somewhat, over the past four years, we see the way

ahead as one of consolidation and scaling up impact. Given our ambition to be the resource

centre for minority rights and those of excluded groups in India and the South Asia region,

this scaling could potentially take many forms and shapes. We plan to further strengthen

ourselves by way of technical capacity and to strengthen bonds to local communities and

local and national networks. Ultimately, the big push we plan for 2019 is to scale up our

impact and make it sustainable: through bringing new youth leaders within our fold to expand

the changemakers’ network, transfer capacity directly to the community, and through use of

technology with a more user-friendly version of our mobile app (‘Misaal: Haq ka

Saathi’)aggregating helpful information and enabling collective action. Elsewhere, the

Citizens Against Hate platform will see greater engagement locally, with lawyers, para-legals

and affected families, and the South Asia Collective will see us working closely with

minority-led networks from across the South Asia region, documenting violations and

pushing inclusion.

Increasingly and over time, these interventions are aimed to take institutional shape.

We are at the early stages of conceptualising a national facility, located in or around Delhi, as

a centre of excellence, developing and testing models of delivery; developing appropriate

learning aid and resources material; training and capacity building activists; conducting

cutting-edge documentation and research; and acting as a think tank, focused on marginalised

minorities in India.

And we plan to establish a South Asia Observatory on minority and human rights, at a

suitable location, to act as a centre of excellence, documenting and tracking violations and

discriminations across the region; bringing experts and activists together; and advocating

with national, regional and international actors, for improved outcomes; together creating a

South Asia-wide civil society

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This drilling in and expansion is motivated both by the general gap in such capacity, and by

the specific circumstances of the recent years in India, and across the region, with enhanced

targeting of minorities and excluded groups, and the space for them increasingly restricted.

To fructify, these plans will need financial and human resource. A large chunk of our work

going forward will be to organise both these resources. This will be even as we mitigate

against risks, especially that of poor impact, and of resources and energies invested not

resulting in commensurate results. These will require effective management systems and

procedures, and a governance system that is able to lead and drive the thrust forward. The

‘how’ then, is going to be as important as the ‘what’ of our future expansion and

consolidation.

Project specific plans for 2019

Misaal Facilitation Centres

Expand Misaal’s Facilitation Centres to multiple sites, potential sites include one more

Hub in West UP, Western Bihar, Assam and a new hub to consolidate work in Bhopal.

NRC intends to aid in the development an integrated model that is standardized across

Hubs – this includes trainings formats, improved reporting formats for objective

assessment, clear indicators for work, social media strategy, media outreach strategy,

partner management and standardised Hub procedures.

Setting up of a new office for NRC in Delhi as Misaal gets its registration as an

independent NGO.

Regular State level meetings of supporters, donors and Misaal Staff from that State at the

State Advisory Group (SAG) meeting.

Annual Convention for grassroots stakeholders working on rights-based issues will start

in 2019.

Quarterly Meetings where Misaal Staff comes together to review, discuss, plan and learn

will become half yearly this year – January and June.

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Misaal Fellowship

Greater engagement with youth, with our launching a volunteer programme for youth in

poorest communities, and counselling and coaching programme for the same constituents.

First of these being opened in September 2018.

Regular capacity building trainings: monthly trainings at Misaal Hub’s for volunteers and

community; monthly trainings for Misaal change makers at state level during the SAG;

and regular legal awareness camps for the communities we work in on legal rights, with a

specific focus on women.

Misaal is in the process of developing resource materials on the following themes - data

collection techniques, entitlements and information on public schemes, guide on using

Misaal mobile app, legal rights and most importantly, women and child rights. Improving

articulation and documentation capacities within target communities remains a paramount

focus area for Misaal.

‘Misaal: Haq ka Saathi’ App

Greater use of technology, to scale up provisioning, through improving and re-launching

Misaal mobile app, as an aggregator specifically for the poor and marginalised, of

information on laws and public schemes, and services provided by private providers.

Version 2 of the app – covering nutrition and health, education, livelihoods and legal aid

– is targeted to be launched early 2019.

Misaal Taleem

Standardisation of teaching modules

Ensuring that Taleem teachers are able to access one or two good teachers trainings

Using RTE to mainstream most of Taleem students into functional schools.

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Misaal Rozgaar

Rozgaar trainers will spread information about SHGs and trying to organise more SGHs

at the end of each batch.

Developing a standardised module for silai.

Diversification in skill development thematic for training purposes – computer skills etc.

Misaal Insaaf

Improving systems for tracking and supporting legal aid work, on cases Misaal is

following (lynchings, sexual violence, communal violence and NRC), through a national

network of lawyers.

Continue and improve a regular system of hate crime legal clinics with our network of

lawyers by engaging with legal departments all over India, example, Jindal Law School.

Strengthening and widening anti-hate crime networks (Citizens Against Hate

particularly) through regular civil society consultations, report releases and media

outreach.

File applications and RTIs to support Counsels with accurate data on lynchings and NRC

at the Supreme Court Level.

Lobby government to create anti-minority hate crime safeguards through better

implementation of existing laws, accountability of police and creating of new laws where

there is a lacuna.

The South Asia Collective

Launch and operationalize the South Asia Collective as formal group with a support

team housed at Misaal, Delhi.

Working with South Asia Collective members, strengthen minority and human rights

advocacy capacity in South Asia, through

(i) Annual production of State of Minorities Report, 2019, by Social Science Baha in

Nepal

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(ii) Developing a system of tracking and reporting rights violations through urgent

actions and advocacy

(iii) Support to grassroots community groups working with and on minorities to enable

change

(iv) Support human rights defenders at South Asia level by giving them a safe platform

that can amplify their voice and message.

ANNEXURE I

Misaal Changemakers

Assam Team

1. Shahjahan Ali

Shajahan Ali Ahmed is a 30 year old social rights activist from the village Aikhari

Bilar Pather under Baksa district of state Assam. He is a former student's leader of a

students’ organisation based in Assam. Since 2014, from the time of Narayanguri

massacre (1-2 May, 2014), he is actively doing social work with dedication. He is a

Graduate in Assamese. Presently working with Misaal as Barpeta Hub Coordinator,

he is also an NRC Fellow and he has been working actively.

2. Sahab Uddin

Sahab Uddin Ahmed is an activist working with Misaal since September 2018. He is

working as a Misaal Fellow (Barpeta). Sahab enjoys working with people and

assisting them with their entitlement rights. He is a graduate from Barkhetri

College, Mukalmua, Assam. At present he is working on documentation for NRC,

organising meetings with the community members and explaining them about the

process to get themselves registered in NRC.

3. Jahidul

Jahidul Beg is 25 years old. He has completed his graduation in commerce from B. H.

collage, Howly in 2014. He is passionate about working for society. He has joined

Misaal a few months ago. Presently, he is working on NRC claims and objections

with Misaal.

4. Forhad

Forhad Ali is a 20 year old volunteer at Misaal, Assam. He is a young and active

member of the team. He is working with the community since 2015. He has a keen

interest in serving the society.

Bihar Team

1. Shakeela

Shakeela is a middle aged women, working with Misaal since 2015. She has been

designated as a Misaal fellow and works in Phulwarishreef area of Patna. She is a

resident of Phulwarishreef. She has worked on a range of issues over the period of

time such as mobilising the community for social protection schemes and

scholarships. She has done campaigning for sanitation in the community. In the field

of education, she has worked closely with the local anganwadi and auxiliary nurse

midwife (ANM) and has sensitized the community for sending the minor children to

anganwadi for primary education. She monitors the Rozgaar trainer and Taleem

teacher of Misaal in the Patna Hub of Misaal.

2. Anjum

Anjum is a sincere activist, working with Misaal as fellow in Phulwarishareef, Patna.

She is part of the Misaal team since 2015. She works closely with co-fellow Shakeela

in Phulwarishareef. In her tenure so far, Misaal managed to build strong presence in

the community. Like Shakeela, she has taken up issues such as community

mobilisation and capacity building of the community on their civic rights. She is co-

in-charge of the Misaal hub in Patna. With her persistent effort, she has managed to

mobilise the community in order to pressure the local administration to give special

attention for hygiene and sanitation in Phulwarishareef.

3. Rizwana

Misaal has one Rozgaar centre in Phulwarishareef. Rozgaar centre is managed and

run by Rizwana. She has a graduation degree and is capable of imparting stitching

training. She is working with Misaal Rozgaar centre since 2016. She organises a six

month stitching course and train a group of 10-15 women. Apart from providing

training, Rizwana has weekly meetings with the trainees and aware them about the

employment opportunities and Self-help group formation.

4. Firoz

Mohammad Firoz is twenty four years old and is a Misaal Taleem teacher, currently

working in Phulwarishareef Hub. He has a BA degree. He is a dedicated teacher and

is putting effort to work in the field of improving the quality of education among the

discriminated and marginalised section of the society. He offers three hours a day for

teaching the children in Hub. He had also lead the Misaal Outreach Program in

Phulwarishareef where 280 students from various schools participated in a quiz

competition. He is a valuable asset for Misaal.

5. Shahim

24 year old Shahim is an activist working as a Misaal Vaishali Fellow. Similar to

other fellows his work also entails to make the community aware about the legal and

civic entitlements. His area of work revolves around education and sanitation. He had

surveyed government schools in the region and had submitted a complaint against

school administration about the negligence in school. With his effort, hundreds of

schools children in the region were able to file application for scholarships. He has

worked to build relations with community leaders and local government officials.

With his effort Misaal has established itself in Vaishali.

6. Savita

Savita is a 22 year old who has a undergraduate degree. She wants pursue her career

in government employment. She is keen to teach to teach children. She became part

of Misaal in the year 2017 as a Taleem teacher in Patna City, where there are 60

students who belong to Muslim and Dalit community.

7. Indradev

Inradev Sada joined as Misaal fellow in Madhubani district of Bihar in December

2018. He belongs to a Dalit community. He has experience in civic entitlement

schemes. He has started to do the social mapping of the Madhubani. He is 24 years

old and has a bachelor’s degree.

8. Uzma

Uzma Nasim is a lawyer by profession and is working as a Misaal legal aid fellow in

Nawada. She is working on a gang-rape case in Nawada. Apart from being a lawyer,

she is a trainer of legal rights issue. She conducts legal aid workshops in Misaal.

Madhya Pradesh Team

1. Sajida

Sajida joined the Misaal Rozgaar centre, Bhopal in the September of 2018. She is a

40 year old woman. She is one of the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984. At her

centre, there are 15 widows who are also victims of the tragedy. Sajida is involved in

training these women in stitching. She takes a three hour class every day for these

women.

2. Arshi

Arshi Qureshi is Misaal Taleem teacher in Bhopal. She is a 17 year old girl, who

wishes to pursue her degree in social work and serve the community. As of now she is

managing a safe home for the children who belong to rag-picker community. She

teaches them, sensitize them about the child rights, sexual abuse and convince them to

join school. Her centre is located in the heart of the area where the community

resides. Community members are very appreciative of her and the affection she shows

towards the children. Children also admire her and are very comfortable around her.

Mewat (Haryana-Rajasthan) Team

1. Alim.

Alim Ansari is a Misaal Taleem teacher in Punhana Haryana. He is currently pursuing

his diploma engineering and wishes to pursue higher education in the field of

engineering. He teaches 42 students in his centre. He is a dedicated and hardworking

teacher and commits to the cause of providing education to the students who belongs

to discriminated and marginalised communities.

2. Fakhruddin

Fakhruddin is a 40 year old. He has joined Misaal as Misaal Alwar Fellow in

December 2018. He is a graduate and a diploma holder in computer application. He

had prior experience as computer trainer. He will be starting his fellowship work from

January 2019 onwards. As of now he is doing a social mapping of the villages he will

be working in.

3. Nasir Ali

Nasir Ali joined Misaal in 2016 as a Missal fellow in Atarra district of Uttar Pradesh.

His work entails providing support to community members in availing social

protection schemes and entitlement. He was promoted as Haryana State supervisor in

the year 2017. Since then, he has been working in Mewat district. His work entails

supervision of the Misaal operations in the region. Also, he is actively involved in

assisting the victims of hate crime in region. Apart from this he is mentoring the

Taleem teacher and assisting community application of varied range of Social

protection schemes.

UP Team

1. Khursheeda

Khursheeda is a Misaal fellow in Shamli, Muzaffarnagar. She has been working as a

Misaal fellow since 2017. Ever since she joined Misaal, she has been assisting the

community whose members have been victims of the Muzzafarnagar Riot of 2013.

She is assisting the community in availing of various civic entitlement schemes. Since

April 2018, she has been putting effort to form self-help groups of women who are

residents of displaced colonies in the locality. Untill now she had managed to form

four self-help groups which are registered with the UP government and are getting

stitching contracts.

2. Reemu

Reemu joined Misaal as a Taleem teacher in 2016. She started as Taleem teacher in

Jaunpur. She belongs to a Dalit community, and is a dedicated teacher who is

committed to the Taleem cause that Misaal envisions. She is passionate about

teaching and wish to pursue career as a teacher in schools.

3. Shabana

Shabana is involved in the Misaal Rozgaar Centre. She joined Misaal as trainer in

2017. Since then she has been conducting six month training courses with 15-20

trainees each. She has proved to be consistent in the efforts she puts applies in the

training sessions. Trainees who have graduated from centre now volunteer to provide

assistance to the new trainees.

4. Kesh Rani

Kesh Rani joined Misaal in 2018 as a Taleem teacher in Banda. She has followed in

the steps of her predecessor in the post, Shabnam. She took over as Taleem teacher

and is now providing 3 hours of tuition to 40 children every day.

5. Ruby

Ruby Zainab is a 35 year old woman. She is a mentor and manager of the Misaal

centre in Banda. The centre currently accommodates two of Misaal’s operations in

Banda – Taleem and Rozgaar centre. She has been in collaboration with Misaal since

2016. She also has her own organisation named as ‘Alfiza’. She is an activist and

community worker. Her work primarily revolves around capacity building and

providing livelihood skills training to the women prisoners in Banda Jail.

6. Md Saleem Ansari

Saleem joined Misaal in 2013 as a Misaal fellow. He has worked in Muzzafarnagar

district of Uttar Pradesh. He primarily works with Muzzafarnagar riot victims. His

work entails advocacy of the riot victims for availing justice. In February 2018,

Saleem was promoted as Uttar Pradesh State Supervisor for all the Misaal operations

in Uttar Pradesh. His work, since then, entails handholding all the fellows, Taleem

teachers, Rozgaar trainers, and to strengthen their work.

Spending

Income

Expenses ABT CES CES Amount Income ABT CES CES Amount

Personal 11,63,341 903,132 1,12,500 21,78,973 Donation 15,13,200 15,13,200

Communication 16,143 239,470 2,55,613 Grant 22,35,876 0 22,35,876

Hotel & Food Exp. 1,12,811 1,12,811 Bank Interest 951 17,486 18,437

Travel Exp. 44,808 106,554 1,51,362 0

Local Conveyance 1,20,782 11,014 1,31,796 0

Printing & stationery

Exp 25,158 6,240 31,398 0

Meeting Expenses 51,559 45,000 96,559 0

Rent 55,500 55,500 0

Bank Charges 18 14,281 14,299 0

Repair &

Maintenance 22,321 22,321

Electricity Exp. 187 187

Mis. Expenses 1,700 1,700

Surplus 9,38,685

Exess of exp.

Over income 1,00,177 1,23,514

Total 16,14,328 22,53,362 1,23,514 30,52,519 16,14,328 22,53,362 1,23,514 37,67,513

Misaal Foundation

Income & Expenditure Statement 2017 – ‘18

Annexure II

Misaal Foundation

Income & Expenditure

Annexure III

For the period (01-04-18) to (31-12-18)

Expenses Income

Heads ABT CES Amount (Rs.) Source ABT CES CES Amount (Rs.)

Carry Forward 1,00,177 0 1,23,514 Carry Forward (P/Y) 9,38,685 9,38,686

Personnel 5,98,244 8,14,868 10,15,686 24,28,799 Donation 11,24,900 11,24,900

Communication 7,996 24,300 32,296 Grant 2,75,268 13,63,192 16,38,460

Hotel & Food Exp. 0 Interest From Bank 7311 7311

Travel Exp. 7,076 1,39,999 4,20,033 5,67,108 Local Conveyance 4,604 45,606 50,210 Printing &

stationery 15,844 6,860 22,704 Meetings 976 81,422 82,398 Rent 88,600 92,000 1,80,600 Bank Charges 0 Repair &

Maintenance 1620 11,062 12,682

Rehabilitation of Hate crime 1,50,000 1,50,000

Mis. Expenses 902 902

Surplus 1,56,172 2,34,786 deficit 4,32,991

Total 11,32,211 12,13,953 17,96,183 41,42,348 11,32,211 12,13,953 17,96,183 41,42,348

ABT: Aman Biradari Trust CES: Centre for Equity Studies

OUR PROJECTS

MISAAL FELLOWSHIP: Misaal, with the support of many like-

minded organisations, launched the ‘Misaal Fellowship: Youth for Inclusive

Development’ programme in January 2015 to support a nation-wide network

of youth activists working with the poorest Muslim communities in the poorest

minority concentrated districts. Under the fellowship, we work towards

training, capacity building, networking and advocacy support for fellows and

the local communities.

MISAAL TALEEM: After more than one year of field engagement in

few states we realized through the baseline surveys, community meetings and

engagement with beneficiaries and volunteers, that, education level was

drastically low. Most of the children were either out of school or enrolled in

government schools, and not getting proper education. It came out that lack of

education was root for many other problems that communities are facing

including awareness, employment and ability to take informed decisions.

MISAAL ROZGAAR: Is an attempt to develop sustainable models of

livelihood generation for weaker sections who are stuck in the cycle of being

dependent on labour work. Under this project we have established Misaal

Rozgaar Resource Centres in Patna and Banda. The Patna centre is supported

thanks to the generosity of Midlands International Aid Trust and British

Association for People of Asian origin, both UK based charities. Banda centre is

supported by Indian Muslim Welfare Association, Lucknow. Misaal Rozgaar aims

to provide skills training in crafts (tailoring, among others) as well as in

enterprise development for sustainable income generation, to older and young

adult women from weaker section of the society, namely poor Muslim and Dalit

families.

WE AT MISAAL STRIVE FOR:

Greater awareness, organization, and capacity among

poorer minorities and other excluded groups, and activities,

organization and alliances working with them.

Better access of the excluded groups to pro-poor laws,

services, and programs.

Promoting pro-poor, gender-friendly and progressive

attitudes and practices within the community.

Strengthened mixed-group mobilization and capacity, at

local level, around pluralistic value, tolerance of diversity

and minority rights.

OUR PARTNERS:

Quill Foundation

Citizens Against Hate

The South Asia Collective

CONTACT US

M I S A A L F O U N D A T I O N

M - 5 , H A U Z K H A S , (R E A R S I D E , G R O U N D F L O O R) , A U R O B I N D O M A R G , N E W D E L H I - 1 1 0 0 1 6 , I N D I A.