The Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) is a premier autonomous research, training and evaluation organization of North-West of India. It is a non-profit making professionally managed organization registered under the Societies Act in 1992. It concerns itself particularly with the following areas: Public Affairs and Economic, Policy Unit, Ph.D. Program Unit, Education and Evaluation Studies Unit, Governance Studies Unit, Development Studies Unit, Gender Studies Unit, and Peace Conflict Resolution and Policing Unit

In the field of Development Studies, its focus has been on issues like WTO and its impact on agriculture, rural employment, rural indebtedness, and agribusiness. It has also been engaged in the study of issues relating to liberalization and its impact on health and education.

In Governance, Peace and Human Development, the main focus has been on resolution of conflicts, globalization of the economy and the emerging conflicts in South Asia, victims of militancy with special reference to social, psycho-somatic and economic effects, alcoholism, state policy and socio-cultural milieu, drug abuse and its impact on the youth, formulating policy prescription packages, community policing for victim relief and crime prevention.

n Gender Studies, it has formulated policies and strategies for combating violence against women, including female foeticide, impact of liberalization on women’s employment, rights of the girl child, gender and AIDS interface. It has also developed printed and video resource material on gender justice and women’s development.

The main focus of Evaluation Studies is on measuring the extent and reach of social security and safety nets. A number of studies have been undertaken on issues like measurement of rural poverty in Punjab, evaluation of primary healthcare system, primary education system, community health evaluation including infant and child mortality, sanitation, AIDS, immunization and family planning.

Both macro and micro level evaluations have been conducted using innovative methodological tools, including village-level Integrated Participatory Seasonal Observatory System (IPSOS), participatory qualitative methods, neighbourhood analysis, walkthroughs, multi-cluster indicatory surveys etc.

These projects have been undertaken on behalf of the Government of India and various State Governments.

IDC has also been recognized by the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, as an educational institution for imparting non-formal adult and continuing education through Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS).

It will offer vocational education to neo-literates and unemployed youth. The Institute for Development and Communication is also recognized by the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, as a center for providing training to National Service Scheme Programme Officers of the Union Territory of Chandigarh, and the States of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.

During the last three years, the Institute has conducted 24 orientation and refresher courses. Seven hundred eighty (780) lecturers of the region obtained certificates after successfully completing orientation and refresher courses. In addition to this, 227 teachers have been trained under University Talk AIDS programme, 880 students were trained as Peer Educators and 43 programmes were conducted on AIDS awareness in different educational institutions in Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

Professionals, academicians and training co-ordinators associated with IDC to implement and supervise its activities include such distinguished persons as Professor(s) Y.K. Alagh, J.N. Joshi, Partho Mukherji, H.S. Shergill, and Pramod Kumar. All of them have had a life-long association with democratic and nationalist thinking as also progressive movements. It has a vast pool of experts, resource persons, researchers, and investigators in Chandigarh and several other places.

Since its inception, the Vision of Tata Institute of Social Sciences has been to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centred, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all.

Vision of the TISS has been to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centred, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all.

In pursuance of the TISS mission towards creating a people-centred and just society that promotes equality, justice and human rights for all, the School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance (SLRCG) was set up at the TISS Mumbai Campus in June 2012. Law, legislative reform and human rights have a great role in the development and empowerment of societies, communities and individuals. The main objective of the SLRCG is to advance socially relevant legal education and promote the education of human rights through its centres for:

• Law and Society
• Police Studies and Public Security
• Statelessness and Refugee Studies

The SLRCG organised a rural visit to Karjat for its students and held interaction with civil society organisations and the community on issues of farm labourers, the unorganised brick kiln workers, their living conditions and legal issues for an experiential learning of students towards access to justice for a rural community and their empowerment.

The SLRCG initiated steps towards developing entrepreneurship and professionalism among the students by organising workshops as an innovative form of learning. The workshops were on topics such as Defending Capital Punishment Cases, Emotional Intelligence of Lawyers, Corporate Social Responsibility, Alternate Dispute Resolution, and Mediation Strategies. The SLRCG revised its field work manual as Clinical Legal Education & Experiential Learning and identified seven eminent organisations strongly committed to Access to Justice for the marginalised.

The Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya) is a  non-governmental, non-profit and a member based organization. ICJ Kenya is  the only African national section. It is affiliated with International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Geneva, but operates autonomously. ICJ Kenya is registered as a Society under the Societies Act, Chapter 108, Laws of Kenya.

Founded in 1959, ICJ Kenya is the oldest human rights organization in Kenya. Its membership is drawn from the Bar as well as the Bench and currently constitutes of over 500 jurists as members. ICJ Kenya is dedicated to the legal protection of  human rights in Kenya, and the African region in terms of the general mandate for national sections defined by Article 4 of the ICJ Statute. ICJ Kenya has observer status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights. ICJ Kenya is governed under a constitution through an elected Council of 7 members that serves for two-year fixed terms.