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— MEA is also looking into a possible Amendment
of the Passport Act to deal with desertion and
passport fraud.
— As suggested by the MWCD, the MEA is also
proposing setting up of a help line for Indian
women in distress abroad – and formulating a
scheme to provide them immediate support by
concerned missions / posts — In this process the
MEA is consulting Missions/ posts abroad to obtain
their feedback and recommendations on various
steps to be taken such as – preventive measures
such as verification and registration of NRI grooms
, counseling and community contact programs and
support and relief measures such as legal advice ,
short term support,assistance , repatriation etc.
Initiatives of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs
for gender budgeting and mainstreaming
— With regard to the issue of deserted wives from
NRI marriages, regional consultations , workshops
and constitution of a Gender advisory group
comprising of women’s organizations, state
governments etc are being taken up
Capacity building of Gender Budgeting Cells
6.21 Ministry of Women and Child Development along
with the Indian Institute of Public Administration(IIPA),
New Delhi organized in depth workshops for training of
Gender Budgeting Cells set up in the various Ministries
on 12-13 th October 2006 for participants from 30
Ministries/ Departments. The Workshop oriented the
officers on concepts, tools, approach and framework in
order to facilitate effective functioning of the Gender
Budgeting Cells and to carry forward the exercise of gender
budgeting in their sectors. The two day session consisted
of presentations, analysis of case studies, focused group
discussions and group exercises for the participants and
strategies for gender budgeting.
Some of the recommendations that emerged from the
discussions are as under :
— at least, a Joint Secretary level officer, should head
GB Cell. The Cell will need to be in continuous
interaction with Divisional Heads looking after the
plans, programs and schemes of the Ministry .
— All Plan / Non-Plan schemes should pass through
GB Cells for examining their gender inputs. The
GB Cells should review the existing schemes/
projects for gender concerns. .
— Ministries/Departments should initiate collection of
gender disaggregated data of major schemes/
projects which could be analyzed by the GB Cells
as non-availability of gender disaggregated data is
a major constraint. In fact generation of genderdisaggregated
data should be a part of the regular
reporting and MIS activity in programme
implementation
— An impact and outcome analysis for the major
programmes should also be taken up.
— Ministries/Departments should be specially
requested to focus on engendering of Eleventh Plan.
— Ministries/Departments should incorporate gender
concerns in their Working Group Reports set up for
the 11 th Plan.
— The Planning Commission should act as watchdog
for gender mainstreaming in the Government and
should meticulously follow its approvals of plan
schemes ensuring that they address the gender
concerns.
— Annual Reports of all Ministries should have
separate chapter for gender budgeting and gender
mainstreaming and concerns
— Regular training of administrative cadres in gender
budgeting perspectives and practices
— Undertaking a concerted multi-departmental
action for successful and holistic empowerment of
women
— Initiating research studies for strengthening gender
budgeting and mainstreaming
6.22 Issues identified for Gender mainstreaming
include
— Identifying and Breaking barriers to access faced
by women availing services of public utilities like
road transport, power, water and sanitation,
telecommunication, banking and various
employment generation public programmes
— Training of women as highly skilled workers- top
end skills to enhance their productivity
— Research/Technology for women- women workers
in sectors like agriculture, construction etc should
be given women friendly tools
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