Ms. Madhu Mehra heads research and training initiatives at the Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a women’s rights non-profit which she co-founded in 1998. Her approach to gender and social justice has been to anchor policy and activism within evidence collection and research undertaken collaboratively with community partners. Her work on sexual and gender based violence, targeting of women as witches, and early marriage critiques the predominant reliance on criminalisation at the cost of transformatory victim centric approaches. Through PLD she leads the National Coalition Advocating for Adolescent Concerns. As a trainer in the last 30 years, she has contributed to institutionalising training programmes on feminist approaches to law and UN CEDAW, nationally and regionally. An alumni of law schools at the universities of Delhi and Warwick, she has also been a visiting fellow at Universities of Cambridge and Warwick respectively. She contributed in the designing of VWDC and execution of the training program of stakeholders (including all judges, prosecutors, police officers, legal aid lawyers) in the VWDC program in Delhi from 2010. She has also contributed to the framing of the Vulnerable Witness Guidelines of the Delhi High Court (2012) and Jammu & Kashmir High Court (2019).