About

Our History

The Don Bosco Research Centre (DBRC) established in 1998, has a diverse repertoire in working with marginalized groups especially street children and adolescents. Over the years, small in-house projects of the Centre have given way to larger national and international projects that expanded the scope and breadth of research beyond street children to include children, youth and women from other disadvantaged and vulnerable groups such as slums, commercial sex workers, street drug addicts, domestic workers, casual labourers, migrants etc. Initiating and carrying out research on a variety of issues, translating them into publications, creating and feeding into platforms of advocacy (the Don Bosco Research Centre was appointed as the Regional Representative for South Asia for World Drug Policy by the UNODC, Vienna) and building up a database on different aspects of marginalized groups have been a part of the activities of the DBRC since its inception.

Our Vision

By 2016, the Don Bosco Research Centre shall be nationally recognized as a centre of excellence in knowledge management, policy studies and evaluation of programs for the inclusive growth of marginalized children, youth and related institutions.

Our Mission

  1. To undertake, publish and disseminate research projects and studies on marginalized children and youth in existing public and political spaces
  2. To interact, link and network with external, public and government agencies responsible for the care of marginalized children and youth.

The activities of the Centre include:

  1. Research – international, national and regional
  2. Publications – 16 publications (books, activity manuals etc)
  3. E-Newsletter
  4. Training- in house and external – on research methodology, documentation, reflection, developmental issues
  5. Advocacy- nominated by the Vienna NGOs Committee as its regional representative (for South Asia) for NGO participation in the formulation of World Drug Policy at the UNODC, Vienna. Actively involved in eliciting collective voice on issues of concern regarding certain government rules and regulations for children
  6. Social and financial inclusion Program for the rural and urban marginalized

DON BOSCO RESEARCH CENTRE

3rd Floor, Don Bosco Youth Services Building,
Don Bosco School Campus,
Opposite to Khalsa College,
Matunga (E), Mumbai – 400019,
Maharashtra, India