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Cividep India aims to create safe and just workplaces for India’s young workers. We work with workers’ organisations, civil society, businesses and governments to protect labour rights and promote responsible business practices. Want to know how you can become a changemaker?

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How can you help? Start with small, one-time contributions or support long-running projects to move towards systemic changes. As a Cividep supporter, we will ensure that you stay informed about our programmes and activities. We comply with all government regulations, ensuring transparency and accountability in donations. If you want to know more, please write to us. 

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Do I get a tax exemption for my donation? 

All donors to Cividep receive a 50% tax exemption under section 80(G) of the Indian Income Tax Act.

When will I get the 80G certificate? 

For online contributions, tax certificates are sent immediately. For Cheques and NEFT contributions, certificates are shared after three weeks, either by email or to your address.

What details are required to avail of the certificate? 

We collect personal information to process payments and communicate with donors. This may include name, amount donated, address, telephone number, email address, and UID details.

What will Cividep do with my donation? 

Your contribution helps us run various interventions that help workers and their families. To know more, read our annual report, or check the ‘About Us’ page. 

Is Cividep India a registered charitable organisation? 

Cividep is registered as a Society under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960.

Do you accept cash donations? 

We do not accept cash donations due to reasons of transparency and accountability.

What are the other ways I can donate? 

Donors can send a cheque to the organisation’s mailing address given below. Write to us at donate@cividep.org and we will assist you.

Ignite Change

Enable

Empower workers by informing them about workplace rights and well-being. We educate low-wage workers on their workplace rights & occupational health. Thousands gained insights into social security benefits and the importance of collective bargaining through our learning sessions. Support us in organising impactful sessions that go a long way in workers securing dignified workplaces.

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Enhance

Help workers when they need us most. We assist in resolving workplace grievances — from unpaid wages to discriminatory shop floor practices. We offer counseling, mental health support, and help remedy wage theft, social security claims, and workplace accidents. This holistic approach has impacted several women workers. Work with us to solve their woes so they feel safe at work.

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Echo

Join us in amplifying workers’ voices through our research initiatives. Our studies shed a spotlight on workers’ lived experiences. We take these insights to global corporations, governments, and fellow civil society organisations. These studies spark conversations and collaborations with them. Stand with Cividep to amplify workers’ voices through impactful research reports.

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Engage

Aid our efforts to improve the world of work. Engaging stakeholders — NGOs, academia, industries, media, worker groups — we have triggered investigations, formulated guidelines, hosted roundtables, and catalyzed establishment of mandatory creches in garment factories. Back our drive to tell worker-centric stories and bring about change in the lives of low-wage workers.

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How Do Learning Sessions Help Workers?

Knowledge and outreach sessions conducted by Cividep’s field teams play a vital role in enabling workers across industrial clusters. These sessions address a multitude of issues faced by workers, ranging from layoffs and job insecurities to health challenges and lack of awareness about their rights. In addition, Cividep keeps in touch with worker communities through visits and outreach programmes. Here’s how our interventions in 2023 benefitted workers:

Worker Support

  • Training sessions to assist laid-off workers in accessing entitlements such as Provident Fund
  • Legal awareness sessions on collective bargaining and grievance mechanisms
  • Running helplines like the India Labour Line to address issues such as wage theft and exploitation

Worker Education

  • Creation of informative guides raising awareness about health and well-being in factories
  • Workshops on government health schemes and first aid training

Community Building :

  • Innovative initiatives like puppet shows and discussions on gender violence to strengthen community bonds
  • Self-defense sessions and leadership workshops to empower workers

Cividep’s holistic approach not only addresses immediate challenges faced by workers but also fosters long-term resilience and empowerment within communities. With your support, Cividep can continue its impactful fieldwork, improving workers’ lives across various industries and geographies.

How Do We Help Solve Grievances?

The Ambur Case Study

Cividep recently completed 10 years in South India’s leather manufacturing hub to bring together low-wage workers & create awareness about their rights.

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How did this come about in rural Tamil Nadu? All people wanted were stable jobs and didn’t know how to ask for better working conditions. It required a lot of trust-building with the local communities, and myth-busting and awareness creation.

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A recent study by Cividep shows that precarious working conditions for leather workers exist even now. Many lack contracts or employment letters, making it difficult to access social security benefits.

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Due to the tireless efforts of a dedicated Cividep team that began supporting leather workers a decade ago, our Worker Resource Center is an essential hub for the area’s diverse workforce. It is a space where home-based workers, factory employees, and tannery workers come together.

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Today, the leather homeworkers have organised themselves into a 600-member-strong women’s collective that demands recognition and higher pay; factory workers also seek their entitlements while Cividep continues to reach out to brands and multi-stakeholder initiatives to improve transparency & human rights. Help us sustain these vital support systems that are relied on by workers and their families.

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How Does Research Help Workers?

Study on Garment Workers Find Place In UN project

When Rathna, a disabled garment worker, fell down a staircase at her factory, she got inadequate health care. Even when she filed a grievance to help her get state health insurance, the management didn’t budge until a worker collective intervened. Cases like these point to the importance of analysing workplace grievances.

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The ‘Operationalising Labour Rights (OLR)’ research project undertaken by a team from Cividep India, Cardiff Business School, and WISERD, studied 600 workplace grievances of Bengaluru garment workers and found out they are the key to understanding labour rights violations.

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By analysing the grievances reported by Bengaluru’s garment workers, they uncovered whom workers approach with their problems, how concerns are addressed, who advocates on their behalf, and the likelihood of justice. In a nutshell, the research captured the hitherto unexplored power dynamics inside factories.

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These insights, shared with academics and stakeholders, have significant implications for industry leaders and policymakers. OLR findings have already contributed to the UN OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project (ARP III). You can help us conduct more meaningful research to raise awareness about working conditions and drive policy changes.

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These Images Are Worth A Thousand Words: Why Worker Stories Matter 

In 2004, Cividep India captured the challenges faced by Bengaluru’s garment workers in the film ‘Labels From A Global City’. Punctuality is crucial for these workers – a mere 5-minute delay could lead to loss of pay or worse, abuse.

Over the years, Cividep has shared many such worker-centric stories through street plays, photo exhibitions, and documentary screenings, aiming to bring about change.

In 2023, our interventions include:

  • Formed a civil society to develop gender-sensitive health and safety protocols in garment and shoe factories.
  • Conducted workshops with grassroots civil society organizations in partnership with UNDP India, informing them about national and global guidelines on business and human rights.
  • Set to release a handbook on Business and Human Rights in Indian languages to raise awareness.
  • Held dialogue workshops in garment factories to improve communication between workers and management.
  • Developing a microsite showcasing our research on the garment industry, highlighting the lived experiences and challenges of garment workers.

With your support, Cividep can continue telling impactful stories that positively change the lives of workers and their families.

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    FAQs

    • Do I get a tax exemption for my donation? All donors to Cividep receive a 50% tax exemption under section 80(G) of the Indian Income Tax Act.
    • When will I get the 80(G) certificate? For online contributions, tax certificates are sent immediately. For Cheques and NEFT contributions, certificates are shared after three weeks, either by email or to your address.
    • What details are required to avail of the certificate? We collect personal information to process payments and communicate with donors. This may include name, amount donated, address, telephone number, email address, and UID details.
    • What will Cividep do with my donation? Your contribution helps run programmes that improve rights of low-wage workers across industries. To know in detail, read our annual report, or check the ‘About Us’ page. 
    • Is Cividep India a registered charitable organisation? Cividep is registered as a Society under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960.
    • Do you accept cash donations? We do not accept cash donations due to reasons of transparency and accountability.
    • What are the other ways I can donate? Donors can send a cheque to the organisation’s mailing address given below. Write to us at donate@cividep.org and we will assist you.

    For more details, write to us at donate@cividep.org

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