Nirantar has both trained and worked with other organisations and programmes to develop a range of educational material in participation with teachers and learners.

Newsletters and broadsheets
Mahila Dakiya
Nirantar in collaboration with Mahila Samakhya, Banda District Uttar Pradesh conceptualised and initiated the production of Mahila Dakiya, a local newsletter produced by rural women.

At the time when Mahila Dakiya was initiated, the literacy campaigns were at their peak and the large numbers of men and women entering the literate world had hardly any material to read. And what was available was largely didactic and message oriented. Moreover, most material was centrally produced with little involvement of local communities and newly literate readers. Nirantar felt that to produce material which was responsive to women’s needs, they should be involved in creating the publications. Moreover, we believed that the involvement of newly literate women in such a process would be an excellent way of sustaining their literacy skills. Thus between 1993 and 1997 Nirantar conducted training workshops and follow-up activities to facilitate the transfer of skills to a mixed group of newly literate and literate women. The skills transferred included writing, editing and design.