Red Dot Foundation - Safecity
Mansi Gupta is an experienced outreach and research intern with a strong focus on public policy and gender equality. Currently, Mansi serves as an Outreach Intern at the Indian School of Democracy and as a Campaign Intern at Red Dot Foundation-Safecity, where involvement in the Safecity Community Champions Campaign aims to raise awareness against sexual harassment. Mansi has also worked as a Research Intern at Prastaav: The Policy Hub, contributing to various public policy research initiatives, and previously held a similar role at PolicyFide. Volunteering at Milaan Foundation, Mansi supported educational efforts for rural girls during the pandemic. Additionally, Mansi participated in the Elected Representatives Fellowship at Praja Foundation, assisting Municipal Delhi Corporation councillors with research support. Educational qualifications include a PG Diploma in Urban Planning and Development from Indira Gandhi National Open University and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from Mata Sundri College for Women, along with ongoing studies in Gender Equality through a certificate course at the Forum for Democracy.
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Red Dot Foundation - Safecity
Red Dot Foundation aims to make cities safer by encouraging equal access to public and private spaces for everyone especially women and girls, through the use of crowdsourced data, community engagement and institutional accountability. Our flagship program is Safecity, a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public and private spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behaviour that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions. Our main objective is to: - Create awareness on sexual harassment and abuse and get women and other disadvantaged communities to break their silence and report their personal experiences. - Collate this information to showcase location based trends and make this information available and useful for individuals, communities and local administration to solve the problem at the hyper-local level. - Create safe spaces for innovative projects for violence prevention and community resilience. We are creating a new data set which currently does not exist. By representing the information thus collected on a map as hotspots, we are moving the focus away from the "victim" to the location and people can view the issue with a different lens. Our anonymous dataset has been used by police, researchers and communities to understand the nuances of sexual violence better, improve situational awareness and implement better policies. Get in touch for workshops on DEIA, gender sensitivity, POSH Act, POCSO Act, Domestic Violence Act, bystander intervention and programs on youth and women empowerment. We work actively with several Diplomatic Missions, City Goverenments, Police Forces and Corporations to implement public diplomacy programs, safety interventions and CSR projects.