Convention Brings 200 Elected Women Leaders Together to Review Progress and Set Goals - December 21-22, 2010 Responding to the need for increased women’s participation in local government, 200 newly appointed elected women representatives (EWRs) from the 11 districts of Rewa, Sidhi, Satna, Shahdol, Umaria, Katni, Dindori, Shivpuri, Chattarpur, Harda and Jhabua joined together in Bhopal, … Continue reading »
One of India’s largest states, Madhya Pradesh is also one of its most backward. Formed in 1956 as an amalgamation of various provinces on a primarily linguistic basis, the state has 48 districts with a population of over 6 million people. Though it is richly endowed with natural resources, its very size, agro climactic zones … Continue reading »
The project aims at laying foundation for the newly elected representatives and their developing of an understanding of social and political citizenship rights, sharing successes, experiences and challenges of the women as elected leaders, and facilitating the establishing alliances between each other and community members. Strategies of capacity building, gram sabha mobilization, and monthly interactive meetings of elected women representatives. GRAM SUDHAR SAMITI … Continue reading »
Dialogues with print and electronic media were held in 7 districts- Panna, Tikamgarh, Morena, Datia, Gwalior Sidhi, Satna and Rewa. In all 129 journalists, 17 members of networks and 5 federation members participated. Agenda of the meetings was to discuss themes of the Sarojini Naidu Prize, share role of federation members in the SWEEP Campaign, … Continue reading »
Dialogues with print and electronic media were held in 7 districts- Panna, Tikamgarh, Morena, Datia, Gwalior Sidhi, Satna and Rewa. In all 129 journalists, 17 members of networks and 5 federation members participated. Agenda of the meetings was to discuss themes of the Sarojini Naidu Prize, share role of federation members in the SWEEP Campaign, … Continue reading »
Gram Sabha Tracking Workshop Orientation A two-day Gram Sabha Tracking workshop was conducted with partners to orient them on the same and other tracking mechanisms. Following were the main points covered with 22 participants: – Conceptual clarity on gram sabha, and its mobilization techniques adopted by the partners. – Street play, posters and pamphlets, microphone … Continue reading »
Legal Training of EWR Federation Members (Satna) Development of module: The module was developed by MP state office for the legal training of 30 EWR federation members and 7 partners field level functionaries with the help of external resource agency (IWID) and Training Coordinator Rohini from national office. The Training: 30 members of the block … Continue reading »
An Intervention done by the Federation Office bearers of The State Level Federation of Elected Women Representatives who had gathered in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, had taken up a case of forced child marriage of Budaguna Panchayat of district, Sidhi when raised by one of its members. All the members jointly took an immediate step and … Continue reading »
A two- day EWR State level Federation Convention was held on 23rd and 24th October at Bhopal. In this 274 EWRs from 8 blocks of 8 districts participated. The convention began by putting forward the concept of Federation building which is futuristic and aims at (i) motivating women to participate in electoral processes; (ii) create … Continue reading »
Meetings of Block level federation office bearers were held in Sehore, Jhabua, Rewa, Sidhi, Satna and Harda districts in the period January-February 2009. Main points on the agenda were: Work done by the federation in last three months, assessing the training that they have undergone Discussion on candidature and other election related issues for forthcoming … Continue reading »
