Making Workplaces Safe
We support institutions to build safe, diverse, inclusive, and equitable working and learning spaces.
We support institutions to build safe, diverse, inclusive, and equitable working and learning spaces.
The Martha Farrell Foundation provides professional, comprehensive, and sustainable solutions for mainstreaming gender at the workplace, in compliance with laws such as the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the UGC guidelines (2015) for all campuses.
We work with civil society organisations, corporations, private sector organisations, governments, and academic institutions to enable safe and just working and learning environments. MFF has also supported district governments in Delhi and Haryana by forming Local Committees and building their capacity to resolve cases.
MFF’s participatory approaches support staff in understanding complex and deep-rooted gender biases impacting their environments. The sessions with employees, senior management, and Internal Committee (IC) members support workplaces and educational institutions in creating a culture of gender equality and justice.
employees trained in the formal workforce
institutional partners
Internal Committees formed and capacitated
students trained
trainers trained on gender and the 2013 Act
Unable to organise in-person training sessions for large teams? Martha Farrell Foundation’s proprietary Online Training Capsule on the issue of sexual harassment and provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, can help you meet your compliance goals. The Capsule is one hour long, offered in English and Hindi through a multimedia approach, which can be completed by participants at their own pace. Certificates are auto generated upon completion.
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Instituting an anti sexual harassment policy and Guideline for Prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence at CTA and the Tibetan community [with Martha Farrell Foundation] was quite powerful experience. It helped me understand the importance of working with different stakeholders in the community to bring change. Tsering Kyi, Women’s Empowerment Desk (WED), Department of Finance, Central Tibetan Administration
“We need more conversation, more awareness and more discussion on the issue [of sexual harassment at workplace] in every corner of the country. And to do it repeatedly, until its existance and importance isn'ta question or debate. My association with MFF helped me translate some of that for Jind (district in Haryana).” Suhita Dugar, Former Chief Minister's Good Governance Associate - Jind
“Since 2018 there has been a major shift of how we look at the power hierarchies in the art world, and a wide range of art workers have spoken up against abuse and exploitation in the field. Still we are only beginning to reform existing structures and the Martha Farrell Foundation has helped set up an internal committee that is deeply invested in creating a safer work environment for everybody who works with the museum, and is also available for anybody who engages with us.” Arnika Ahaldag
“The workshop helped in creating awareness and sensitising employees who are in supervisory roles, so that they can understand unacceptable and inappropriate behaviors leads to sexual harassment of women at the workplace. The session was very participatory and examples as well as case studies/group exercises enabled employees to think about their rights and obligations under this Act.” Neelam Toppo, Program Officer, SHRC State Health Resource Centre, Raipur
“Everything about the session was good. It was well communicated and cleared up the misconceptions we had about how we looked at the intentions of the respondent before looking at the impact it had on the aggrieved. But we now know that it is the impact that matters in the end and not the intent.” Ravinder Kumar, Law Officer, North Delhi Municipal Corporation
