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Our
involvement with the local self governments started
with the close association with the decentralization
programmes initiated by the state government in Kerla
in 1996. This innovative process offered an opportunity
to mainstream gender in the political discourse in Kerala
and to build capacities of women who were elected to
represent people. The 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments
brought many women into the social and political realm.
We perceived this as our opportunity and responsibility,
to build the capacity of these women to critique the
ongoing development from a gender perspective and be
proactive to bring about a gender just society in whichever
party they belong to.
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| Programmes
completed
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action of gender and decentralized planning in Kerala
was undertaken during 1998 and 2002 with the support
of Royal Tropical Institute ,Amsterdam and the Report
is published.
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Organized an international seminar on “Governing for
Equity-Gender, Citizenship and Governance “ with support
of Royal Tropical Institute Netherlands (KIT). The
proceedings are published as a book by them edited
by Maitrayee Mukopadhyay.
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Sakhi is also involved in a project of "Networking
of Elected Women Representatives
in two districts of Trivandrum and Kollam since
last 6 years. Various capacity building programmes
have been organized and 400 women panchayat members
are part of this network.
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project in collaboration with CapdecK is completed
.It was an action research in 4 panchayats on mainstreaming
gender by conducting a status of women study and
based on that to help the local body to do gender
planning. The report of this research is published.
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Has undertaken a research on " Decentralized
and Women's Health"in association with Achutha
Menon center for health sciences of the SriChitra
Tirunal institute and with support form CHANGE,USA
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We
also undertook and finished process of review of
the efforts at mainstreaming gender in the decentralization
process of the last 10 years and based on that prepared
handbooks and manuals on Gender planning, budgeting
and auditing, to be used by the Local Self Government
institutions(LSGI). Besides this 30 master trainers
and 120 state level trainers were given training
on gender planning, budgeting and auditing.
This programme was in collaboration with the Dept.
of Local Self Government of Kerala.
English
Manual on Gender Planning, Budgeting and Auditing.
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