“Respectful Maternity Care” is a global advocacy campaign to improve quality maternal and reproductive health-care for women and girls and strengthen health systems. Launching on April 11, 2018—India’s National Safe Motherhood Day and International Maternal Health and Rights Day—What Women Want sets out to query one million women and girls worldwide—from capital cities to rural villages—about their top priority for quality maternal and reproductive healthcare services by the end of 2018.

“What Women Want” aims to:

1• Educate and empower individuals about the importance of quality, equity and dignity in women and girls’ healthcare
2• Support women and girls to demand access to high-quality and dignified care and
3• Place women’s and girls’ self-articulated needs at the center of health policies, programs and accountability.

Child Marriage or Early Marriage is no new phenomenon in the rural areas, where it is considered and practiced as an age old tradition. Due to lack of community awareness and intervention to mitigate this problem, the practice is still prevalent. Many of the minors are given to marriage for sake of age old social practices; some are given off to lessen the family burden, while in some cases the minors elope against the will of their parents at age not legally appropriate for marriage. In association with GNB and CINI Afflatus worked with community level stakeholders and school authorities to educate mass and students about the ill effect of child marriage associated with early and untimely pregnancy. Advocacy and collaborative intervention with the government stakeholder at higher level were on priority list to bring in much intensive intervention against child marriage.