Madhulika Mishra
- Award:Changelooms Learning LeadershipAwarding Organization:Pravah IndiaDate Awarded:September 15, 2014
- Award:Star ChangemakerAwarding Organization:Global Action On PovertyDate Awarded:March 20, 2015
- Award:FLO Women AwardsAwarding Organization:FICCI FLODate Awarded:April 29, 2017

I am Madhulika Mishra and I work with young people from across urban and rural Uttar Pradesh on issues of gender and SRHR. A week in my life would look like- mentoring peer-led Comprehensive Sexuality Education delivery in a place which generally gives Islamic education within an urban area of Lucknow city, Organizing dinners for women who never go outside in the city to invite their husbands over for an conversation on the health of their relationships, Managing coordinators across districts of UP(State in India) for the progress of UNICEF’s gender initiative across 2483 schools, heading over to college campuses to engage students and management through events on the importance of access to CSE and and collecting change stories from various communities.
Coming from a traditional but orthodox upper caste family I have many restrictions so, it was my own struggle to bring a change within my family by negotiating with my parents on how it is so important for a girt to be independent and empowered so they can count on their own decision, which ultimately motivated me to work with other adolescents especially girls so they can also come out and work towards fulfilling their dreams.
As a result of CSE sessions in communities young girls are now empowered and taking stand against any odd incident such as Shanti, a youth leader from a urban village has come forward to report a sexual assault case against a 12 year old girl even though she was afraid of being trapped in the case first, but later she backed her and safeguarded the girl out. I have also been following up with government and service providers to provide her all the support and backed Shanti in all the situations.
To be very specific I will use this opportunity to strengthen the capacity of front line health workers across the city. Even though the government is highly investing to capacitate them there is a need to invest to build qualitative delivery of services.


