Lab to Land Programme

Capacity Development Needs of Senior Civil Servants Women are half of any population and mothers of the other half Gender as a concept needs to be mainstreamed in Policy, Programme formulation and implementation.Gender issues are a part of all training programmes including its Capacity Building efforts of ERPs by AMR-APARD.Many modules and vast content is already in use in AMR-APARD.

Sensitizing the R.Rs at the very beginning of their career is important.Gender has value and can grab the attention because of the very innate strength in the concept and its disequalizing effects that existed historically.

But what is required is good contentReal life storiesShort films made on path breaking initiatives (4 to 6 minutes)Short & Crisp reading material Focus on Women in double JeopardPowerful communicators as RPs

A simple and short version of National Policy of the empowerment of womenEnhance the status of women in all walks of lifeEquality without discrimination on grounds of sex (constitutional guarantee)

Subjects for inclusionGenderPatriarchal setupIntegrating Gender into Govt. BudgetsGender based violence State Govts as agents of changeWomen Participation in policy making ie.ERs in RLBs, ULBs & Assembly and ParliamentStates policies play a crucial role in shaping the development processDeprivationsUnderstanding relationsWomens empowermentEnvironment Threats to genders well beingImpeding educationEndangering LivelihoodsDisequalizing factorsGender equalityGender inequality indexGender Inequality Index (Indian context)GII Three dimensions & Five indicatorsGender Inequality IndexWages commandedEmpowermentReproductive HealthMMRAdolescent fertility Elected RepresentationEducational (Secondary& above)Women Labor ParticipationFive indicatorsThree dimensions Power inequalityGender & GeographyGender through the lens of multi dimensional povertyGender & Climate changeGender & LivelihoodsChronic disadvantagesGreater equality resulting in positive effects on environmentHousehold level deprivations Gender issues among socially disadvantaged groupsMulti dimensional poverty index to measure various parameters in health, education, living standardsAbsolute deprivationsViolation of basic human rightsMPI estimates are currently available for 190 countries in which INDIA ranks 134

Globally more than 9 out of 10 poor people face at least one deprivationUrban & Rural concepts among MPI Case studies in gender budgeting ComponentsFeticideInfanticideDiscrimination by parents / House holdEducational deprivationSexual exploitationEve teasingAssaultsEarly marriageEarly pregnancy

Unsafe deliveriesContraceptive discriminationHIV - AIDSBurden of the familyOld ageDesolationDisease