Vatsalya was set up as a resource centre in 1995 by a group of medical professionals, with the primary focus to curb gender based sex selection. Vatsalya also works in the areas of Nutrition, Child Rights, Maternal and Adolescent health, livelihood,Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). Vatsalya has been working for and with the communities in selected rural areas of Uttar Pradesh with particular attention towards women and children for over 25 years now. Vatsalya’s most recent contribution has been witnessed in its commitment to make communities Open Defecation Free (ODF) as its devoted team of field staff has demonstrated its success in many districts of Uttar Pradesh. Vatsalya’s educational, guidance and training initiatives in Menstruation Hygiene Management, with focus on breaking the age-old taboo around this subject have been well received by the women and the school going adolescents. Vatsalya has also extended its services in various wide-ranging activities in the domain of health; its new initiative for Family Planning in urban slums of Lucknow has received much accolades. Vatsalya continued its proactive support to the Government of Uttar Pradesh by way of its research and policy inputs for improving the success rate of ground-level implementation and monitoring of various Government Programs. Vatsalya’s consultative inputs to Government of India on some of the areas in Women and Child Health Sector have also been accepted appreciably. It is probably the appreciation of the success of efforts of Vatsalya that has aroused attention of various support agencies in this sector to come forward and extend their association with Vatsalya with their technical & financial support. Larger part of our strategy is to implement programs at grass root level and create workable/ optional replicable models, which are used for policy advocacy and knowledge creation. Vatsalya has many demonstration models to its credits as well. Vatsalya has been working with many state level platforms like National Health Mission, Directorate of women & child development, State legal service authority, UP, judicial training & research institute, UP and many academic institutions. It has also closely worked with civil society networks in UP and media. It has represented many technical committees at National & State level in the area of health & child protection. In the education space, it has experience of implementation of RTE on the ground in 200 schools in district Lucknow and has been part of state collective for rights of education (SCORE) advancing rights to education. Our work has also focused on “Improving girl’s enrollment & retention in schools by improving sanitation infrastructure”. Focusing on target 5 (B) of SDG, digital access and capacity enhancement. We are focusing on studying the impact of Covid 19 on girl’s education, health and social relationship.

• Vatsalya being a resource centre has developed training materials to educate adolescents and women on menstrual hygiene management.
• Vatsalya has covered all the 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh and is familiar with the working of all districts.
• organization is been part of many policy prescription and advocacy and represents in many technical committees at district,state and national level with department of health,women and child development.
• Our aim is not only to identify challenges on ground level but also be a part of sustainable solutions, disseminate information for research and advocacy work, generate evidence, collaborate with other systems for upscaling and make our community self reliant.
• Vatsalya has worked predominantly on SRHR and particularly on the menstrual health and hygiene Vatsalya is one of the first organizations which with the help of community members also initiated the earthen pot incinerator to tackle growing mounds of menstrual waste.
• Provides employment to the members of the community ,self sustainable after years. Generating evidence, collaboration with other systems for upscaling.
• Working with all the stakeholders to change the society.
• Successful implementation of development projects and has potential to replicate ,innovate and scale up.
• Vatsalya works on gender and PCPNDT and gender training and orientation at grass root level as well as state level .

Vatsalya works at all levels, spreading awareness in the community with systemic forums generating evidence and influencing policies at state level. corporates through their csr partnerships may leverage the strengths of Vatsalya to create a unique value .we are very transparent and ethical organization with clean financial details we have capable ,hardworking and sincere team of trustees ,staff and volunteers . Through the impact made by our various programs our capabilities can be easily assessed. Through working with us ,corporates gets a chance to be a change maker and contribute in the change in the true sense .Advantage of a corporate in partnering with us is visibility on issues of our programmatic intervention . Successful implementation of development projects and has potential to replicate ,innovate and scale up .long standing sustainable experience of working with CSR .We are able to make matrix by making programmatic design by generating evidence and data to show tangible and measurable outcomes year by year . Our programmatic intervention Focuses on community participation ,linkages with related stake holders and government forums from sustainability point of view. Incorporates standards of accounts and finances with transparent utilization of funds.