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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.
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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 ERP’s by AMR-APARD. • Many modules and vast content is already in use in AMR-APARD.
Sensitizing the R.R’s 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 disequalizingeffects that existed historically.
But what is required is good content • Real life stories • Short films made on path breaking initiatives (4 to 6 minutes) • Short & Crisp reading material • Focus on “Women in double Jeopard” • Powerful communicators as RPs
A simple and short version of National Policy of the empowerment of women • Enhance the status of women in all walks of life • Equality without discrimination on grounds of sex (constitutional guarantee)
Subjects for inclusion • Gender • Patriarchal setup • Integrating Gender into Govt. Budgets • Gender based violence • State Govts as agents of change • Women Participation in policy making ie.ERsin RLBs, ULBs & Assembly and Parliament • State’s policies play a crucial role in shaping the development process
Deprivations • Understanding relations • Women’s empowerment • Environment Threats to gender’s well being • Impeding education • Endangering Livelihoods • Disequalizing factors • Gender equality • Gender inequality index
Gender Inequality Index (Indian context) • GII – Three dimensions & Five indicators Elected Representation Educational (Secondary & above) MMR Adolescent fertility Women Labor Participation Five indicators Empowerment Wages commanded Reproductive Health Three dimensions Gender Inequality Index
Power inequality • Gender & Geography • Gender through the lens of multi dimensional poverty • Gender & Climate change • Gender & Livelihoods • Chronic disadvantages • Greater equality resulting in positive effects on environment • Household level deprivations • Gender issues among socially disadvantaged groups
Multi dimensional poverty index to measure various parameters in health, education, living standards • Absolute deprivations • Violation of basic human rights • MPI 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 deprivation • Urban & Rural concepts among MPI • Case studies in gender budgeting
Components • Feticide • Infanticide • Discrimination by parents / House hold • Educational deprivation • Sexual exploitation • Eve teasing • Assaults • Early marriage • Early pregnancy
Unsafe deliveries • Contraceptive discrimination • HIV - AIDS • Burden of the family • Old age • Desolation • Disease