Institute of Juvenile Justice

Name – Prayas Institute of Juvenile Justice

State – New Delhi (Tughlakabad)

Working with – Marginalized and working children.

What is Institute of Juvenile Justice (IJJ)?

The Institute of Juvenile Justice (IJJ) is the apex unit of Prayas which serves as a resource center at the national level to pursue developmental goals related to children’s rights and juvenile justice. IJJ is essentially an action-based research and documentation center to focus upon Child Protection issues of Juvenile Justice, Child Rights, Child Labour, child trafficking and other child related issues.

It directly serves different slums of Delhi and supervises projects in the seven states of the country including Delhi, in support with the donors, government institutions and corporate. .

A major focus area of the institute is to publish the findings of the action based researches time to time for larger use through its Research and Documentation center. It has also been releasing informatory manuals and documents addressing issues of rights of the children, with the aim to directly benefit the stakeholders working in the realm of child rights. These documents have been well received by the NGOs, police personnel’s, government officials in the absence useful intervention manuals on child rights and child protection. And we aim to continue these initiatives in future.

The Training Unit of IJJ organizes local, regional and national Seminars, Conferences and Consultations on child related issues in close coordination with the Child Protection Unit and the Information, Education and Communication Unit raising issues of concern at policy level.

Need for IJJ

In spite of the recent developments on matters concerning children in terms of enactments of child friendly legislations the implementation of these acts and the sensitivity towards the children’s issues is severely lacking.