Shamina Shafiq

Executive Founder Director

https://www.powerfoundation.net

https://twitter.com/ripiniquality

Bringing together POWER of collective impact,generating community ownership & catalyzing the quality of demand, for genderjust, violence free, society!

POWER Foundation is committed to prevent and reduce gender discrimination and violence against women and girls through non-formal education and youth engagement and leadership; positively engaging men and boys, urging them to become champions of gender equality through relevant educational programming that challenges language and behaviors, as well as harmful ideas of manhood that lead to violence against women.

Through its projects, which are also locally adaptable, Power develops strategies and plans, facilitates gender mainstreaming (with achievable monitoring milestones); capacity development/sensitization on gender issues; resource mobilization; organize consultative meetings/seminars. Power Foundation champions innovative advocacy & communication strategies in partnership with some of the best known organizations and influential individuals with multiple initiatives for leveraging both print and social media with a robust media interface that ensures greater visibility and also address capacity building needs of media people.

Bringing together the power of collective impact, and generating community ownership and catalyzing the quality of demand, it aims at making some difference in the society by putting efforts on both micro and macro level. The focal area of work includes adopting villages and implementing intensive model village creation projects, conducting specific development programs for rural girls and women in chosen project areas, focusing on three aspects of empowerment -equal rights, education and health by enabling the role of Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) and through them also mainstreaming the concern regarding Gender Based Violence.

POWER aims to develop future ideas for gender equality and development that are politically practicable, socially acceptable and economically viable.

Member 

Apr 2012 – Apr 2015

The BCCC examines complaints about TV programs from viewers and other sources, including the Ministry of I&B, civil society, NGOs and residents’ welfare associations. The Council usually meets once every month and ensures that TV programs run in conformity with IBF’s Self-Regulatory Guidelines.
On invitation from British High Commission of India visited UK as part of high level delegation of four prominent members of the Indian Muslim Community aimed at deepening co-operation and understanding between the two countries and communities and to enable build understanding on issues of inter-faith and multiculturalism in the UK.
The BCCC is the independent self-regulatory body set up by IBF to examine content-related complaints against GECs. In a short time, BCCC has become India’s most credible self-regulatory mechanism for non-news television. The Council also articulates its views on various aspects of self-regulation and contributes to the policy making process. Independence, Neutrality, Transparency and Autonomy are BCCC’s guiding principles.