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322.00Amita SahayaJennie Granat Thorslund, The Tiger-Program, Vinnova, Estocholm, SwedenAmita Sahaya is the Founder-Secretary of Women Work & Health Initiative which has the mandate for the Asia Chapter ofWomen Work and Health. She is a writer with three published books, her focus being gender issues and fiction. She is theeditor of 'Selected Readings ' She is on the Editorial Board of Women's Link a gender magazine. She is the ConferenceSecretary of the International Conference on Gender & Development in the World of Work- Jhansi, U.P. March 25-27, 2010. Shewas the Head of the Symposia Committee of the IV International Congress on Women Work & Health 2005,She is the Co-founder of BINDU "Building Initiatives & Networking for the Development of the Underprivileged". These are adultliteracy centres for women from the underprivileged sections of society, which are established in Jhansi and Delhi. She is theFounder Member of Findia Foundation - a forum promoting cultural, design and academics. As a part of an Indo-Finnishcooperation under its aegis, she has facilitated an intervention amongst the weavers in Maheshwar (Madhya Pradesh) with theMinistry of Textiles, Govt. of India. Through WWHI she has initiated a second intervention in another weaver cluster withapproximately 5000 workers and working on their rehabilitation through formation of women headed SHGs and upgradation ofskills and capacity building.She is presently the member of the International Scientific committee of WWH. Amita Sahaya is a core committee member ofthe Advisory Board of the School of Gender and Development Studies (SOGDS) IGNOU- University, New Delhi.Madrid, October 20, 21 & 22 - 2010129