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Pradeep Kumar

21/04/21 10:50 AM IST

Gender Samvaad

Context

Gender Samvaad' was launched on the 16th of April, 2021 in a joint initiative by the Ministry of Rural Development’s Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) and the Initiative for What Works to Advance Women and Girls in the Economy (IWWAGE) by LEAD.

Aim
  • To establish a shared platform to generate awareness on NRLM’s gender interventions across the country.
  • Gender Samvaad’s focus remains on hearing voices from the states and of SHG members.
Samvaad will provide states with opportunities to
  • Understand best practices/initiatives that other states have been undertaking to improve women’s agency (e.g. facilitating women’s access to land rights, their engagement in farmer producer organizations (FPOs), best practices around FNHW, in establishing strong institutions for public service delivery, in protecting and providing redress to vulnerable groups within women (e.g. practices against witch hunting) etc.))
  • Understand gender interventions globally;
  • Engage with experts and other colleagues on suggestions regarding how to handle issues/implementation barriers;
  • Contribute to creation of a ‘gender repository’ with resource materials on best practices for gender interventions across the country/other countries; and
  • Build advocacy around the need to focus on gender issues across SRLMs and the NRLM.
Source: PIB

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