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AAINA

Headquarters address
Organization's name:	AAINA
Organization's acronym:	ZAP
Former Name(s):	ZAP
Address:	Plot No. 70/3530, Ground Floor, Jaydev Vihar Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751013 India
Phone:	+91-674-2360630
Fax:	ZAP
Email:	info@aaina.org.in
Web site:	www.aaina.org.in
Organization type:	Non-governmental organization
Languages:	Hindi

Activities

Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Children Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Disabled Persons Education Humanitarian Affairs Water Women Women/gender Equality Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Human rights of women Millennium Development Goals Research The girl child Trafficking in women and girls Violence against women Women and health Women and the environment Women in power and decision-making Social Development: Cooperative Disabled persons Employment Information and Communications Technologies Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Climate change Disaster management and vulnerability Education Gender equality Information for decision-making and participation Sanitation
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	India
Millennium Development Goals:	Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality
Mission statement:	Aaina recognizes the human rights of persons with disability and elderly persons and commits to their realization through appropriate participatory program interventions leading to an inclusive society. It further strives to establish a center of excellence on research, training and documentation. Aaina recognizes the rights of children and commits to facilitate their realization through appropriate participatory program interventions, leading to a non-discriminatory society. Aaina commits to promote gender equality and justice and empowerment of women in all spheres of life by facilitating appropriate mechanisms to ensure their rights, identity, dignity and independence. Aaina believes in being a dynamic, scientific, learning organization by appropriately informed through research and development and networking to actively influence policy through strategic advocacy mechanism that incorporates people centered advocacy. Aaina commits to respond to the disaster situations upholding the perspective of human rights.
Year established (YYYY):	1998
Year of registration (YYYY):	1999
Organizational structure:	General Body of members Elect the executive committee of 12 members Executive members elect the 3 office bearers -President, Secretary & Treasurer Secretary is the executive head. The Secretary is supported by the Director Programs, Director Development and Administration and Finance Manager for the overall operations of the organization. The Director Programs looks after the structured implementation of projects and programs. The Director Development and Administration structures, plans and prepares administrative procedures, human resources, prepares proposals, retains MIS and databases and looks after various compliance factors of the organization. This post also looks over the research and documentation in the organization. The Finance Manager takes care of finance and accounting under the leadership of Secretary and Treasurer. Sometimes subcommittees are formed under the leadership of nominated Executive Committee member to help the Secretary in policy formulation and operational efficiency and expediency. For the implementation of different activities various professionals and field level functionaries are employed for projects, programs and designated research and development activities.
Number and type of members:	56 members in General Body. 15 life members. Rest are annual members.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	NAWO, APCD
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Fundraising campaigns Grants from Governments Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

Additional Information

Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:

Women
Non-governmental organization

Advancement of Women

Affiliation with other organizations:	NAWO- National alliance of women
Publications:	Status of women with disability in Odisha Access audit
Statements or documents submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women:	Part of shadow report to UN on CEDAW