Aanchal KAPUR has, since May 1999 brought together a group of young people with backgrounds in sociology, medical anthropology, development and gender studies, political science, law and art design to set up KRITI: a development praxis and communication team, based in New Delhi. As team leader, she works with the other members in doing research, training, documentation and designing of development resources for NGOs, government and international organisations.
The team works with a gender perspective on a wide-range of development issues, such as health, education, environment, human rights, micro-credit, violence against women, etc. It offers the KRITI Information Place where people and organisations can access audio-visual and print material on a range of development issues. The team brings out a dossier of newsclips from seven English national dailies that track and analyse media coverage on development processes. This is open for subscription. A diary on people's movements is also brought out every year by the KRITI team and they also provide information and media support to people's initiatives and campaigns. A film club that screens documentaries and slide shows is organised every third saturday of the month at the KRITI workplace in New Delhi. Finally, the team reuses and recycles paper resources and provides this option to other organisations with the purpose of making eco-friendly work environments. The communication material developed by the team includes posters, postcards, bookmarks, booklets, reports and is available on request.
Till April 1999, she was coordinating an International Labour Office project in India entitled 'Training and Information Dissemination on Women Workers' Rights' between June-April 1999. Her work involved coordinating and conducting research and producing an information package on women workers rights in India.
In the past, she has been involved in research, training and evaluation of projects on natural resource management, common property resource management, solid waste management, education, and gender and environment. She has also coordinated a study of environmental NGOs working towards the empowerment of women throughout India. A. Kapur has a post-graduate degree in Political Science from JNU and another Master's in Development Studies from LSE with a specialization in Social policy and planning.