Advancing Women Leaders As Key Change Agents

Our design and interventions aim to comprehensively expand the ability of women leaders to undertake the democratic development of their panchayats, and simultaneously make space for active community participation in local governance. THP India recognises that women’s active participation can and has created important spaces for community voices and local development priorities to emerge. The program supports women leaders in understanding the social and structural barriers within which they operate, while equipping them with the knowledge, tools, and skills needed to improve access to welfare entitlements and public services through effective use of resources. The program is committed to strengthening good governance, accountability, and transparency within gram panchayats.

Our Key Focus Areas

- Strengthening Women’s Leadership
  
  Building capacities and skills to deepen participation in governance related processes
- Accelerating Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment
  
  Create critical support networks for adolescent girls and facilitate an inter-generational dialogue

Core program strategy

Strengthening Women’s Leadership

Our core program strategy focuses on strengthening women’s leadership capacities, fostering an enabling environment that supports active participation and informed decision-making, and energising institutional mechanisms to respond better to community needs.

Empowered Leaders

Building capacities, skills and knowledge.
Enabling Environment

Creating support structures as spaces for co-learning and collective action.
Critical Spaces

Interface with local administration.
Intergenerational Dialogue

Leveraging the role of elected women to empower adolescent girls.

Empowering Adolescent Girls

The overall program is embedded in the governance framework.

Over the last ten years, the adolescent girls’ program has boldly deepened its impact – strengthening girls’ voices, agency, and the power of informed choice. Anchored in a two-pronged strategy: girl-centric leadership and systematic engagement of local governance institutions. It fuels transformation from within and around.

The program fosters a sense of empowerment, girls emerge not as passive recipients of change but as whole individuals equipped with the confidence, knowledge, and skills necessary to speak, act and access their entitlements. Simultaneously, it works to ensure that local governance structures are more responsive and accountable to the realities faced by adolescent girls, ensuring that their concerns are acknowledged and addressed in governance-related decision-making processes.

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