COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

elationship does not exist such as students and would have
clear provisions about the employers’ obligations to prevent
and redress sexual harassment at workplace. Advice of
the Ministry of Law and Justice has been sought on the
various provisions proposed in the draft Bill.
National Commission for Women
2.38 The National Commission for Women (NCW) was
constituted on 31-1-1992 as an apex level statutory body
under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990. The
main task of the Commission is to study and monitor all
matters relating to the Constitutional and legal safeguards
provided for women and to review the existing legislations
and suggest amendments, wherever necessary. NCW is also
mandated to look into the complaints and take suo moto
notice of the cases involving deprivation of the rights of
women in order to provide support, legal or otherwise, to
helpless and needy women. Ensuring custodial justice is
another important function. The NCW is empowered to
monitor the proper implementation of all the legislations
made to protect the rights of women so as to enable them
to achieve equality in all spheres of life and equal
participation in the development of the nation. (More
details are given in Chapter 10 on ‘National Commission
for women’)
Millennium Development Goals
2.39 The Millennium Development Goals has adopted
two goals specifically on women i.e. ‘Promote Gender
Equality and Empower Women’ and ‘Improve Maternal
Health’ and the measures being taken to achieve the targets
and the level of achievements are being monitored regularly
at Country and International Platforms.
UNDP Programme
2.40 The Ministry signed a Memorandum Of
Understanding (MOU) with UNDP in July 2004 for
implementation of a project titled “Promoting Gender
Equality”. A Standing Committee under the
chairpersonship of JS (WW) was constituted to facilitate
programme implementation. The project has three
components as given below:
— Action Research on Women Leaders: Increased
understanding of the factors that enable/ constrain
women to assume leadership in various spheres
— Action research on Vulnerable women – Increased
information base of the approaches and actions
adopted by the diverse agencies to address the social
security concerns of women belonging to the
vulnerable groups
— Impact of macroeconomic polices on women
workers - National and State level dialogue and
consensus on benchmarking and tracking genderrelated
impacts of key processes such as
globalisation, liberalisation and WTO
The project aims at supporting the Ministry of
Women & Child Development in its role of tracking and
monitoring progress across sectors in achievement of
national commitments to gender equality and
empowerment of women. The areas of focus of these
projects are aligned to cross cutting strategies that are
central to gender mainstreaming efforts in the country.
During the year 2005-06 we have released Rs 1.186 crores.
During the year 2006-07, the following proposals were
approved:
v A Study on Ageing , Disability and Gender Trade
v Documenting lessons and learning in organsing
Home Based Workers
v On Gender and Trade by National Productivity
Council and IIT
v Preparation of GDI/GEM
v preparation of a Women’s Development Report
v Engendering the process of XI Plan
v Second Time Use Survey
v Printing a volume on gender and macro-economics
Under this GOI-UNDP project, the work of ‘Preparation
of Gender Development Index/ Gender Empowerment
Measure’ has been initiated by this Ministry. The Indian
Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) is the
collaborating National Professional Institution in this work.
A Technical Advisory Committee to provide guidance in
finalizing the methodology, list of indicators and other
technical inputs has already been constituted.
SAARC -UNIFEM Gender Data base
2.41 The task of preparation of a gender database for
SAARC member countries is being undertaken by
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