This handbook is a comprehensive guide on conducting Women's Safety Audit (WSAs) in low-income urban neighbourhoods, with a special focus on essential services. This Handbook is a learning tool devised with a view to inspire other groups and communities across the world to explore the links between women's safety and security and access to essential services in order to create more gender inclusive communities free from violence against women and girls.

This booklet contains case studies that represent a diversity of issues pertaining to the safety and security of women and girls of all ages. It offers a variety of examples of survivors and the mechanisms and media they utilized in order to overcome compound forms of violence and abuse. Each individual case highlights a particular subset of crimes against women: rape; dowry harassment; child marriage; and stalking.

This document contains the Code to provide protection against sexual harassment of persons employed at Jagori and for prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

This document contains case studies that share experiences of women facing violence, how they challenged existing patriarchal systems and evolved as 'survivors'. Besides, it also provides information about rights and laws available to women in trying circumstances. The cases highlighted here reiterate that violence is inextricably woven into the everyday lives of these women. The agents of violence could well be located within families or outside in unfamiliar domains.