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 disequalizing effects 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.ERs in 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

Gender Inequality Index

Wages commanded

EmpowermentReproductiv

e Health

MMR Adolescent fertility

Elected Represent

ation

Educational (Secondary

& above)

Women Labor

Participation

Five indicators

Three dimensions

• 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