The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is now accepting nominations for researchers from low- and middle-income countries for the 2023 Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research, which honors the legacy of a visionary leader whose contributions to the feminist and social justice movements are evident across the world. Dr. Paula Kantor, […]

Recognizing the need to strengthen gender-responsive institutions and practices in Sheopur, the Gender Justice Program (GJP) set out to integrate a strong gender lens within the Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission (MPSRLM) institutional framework and establish systems and practices that empower rural women to voice and visibilize their concerns utilizing MPSRLM platforms. The Proof […]

Since 2016, the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) adopted a gender integration strategy with a focus on capacity building of staff and community institutions and piloting of gender strategy in a few blocks within interested states. The program has a huge potential to transform women’s community institutions comprising millions of rural women […]

The Case Studies Report provides documentation of the journeys of change of the Samta Sakhis, a name given to Community Resource Persons (CRPs) for Gender, appointed as part of the Gender Justice Program (GJP). They were meant to work closely with community institutions of Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission—such as Cluster Level Federations (CLFs), […]

The Case Studies Report provides a documentation of the journeys of change of the Samta Sakhis, a name given to Community Resource Persons (CRPs) for Gender, appointed as part of the Gender Justice Program (GJP). They were meant to work closely with community institutions of Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission—such as Cluster Level Federations […]

The research brief presents a summary analysis of the key strategies and outcomes of the Gender Justice Program (GJP) along with a roadmap for scaling it. The insights presented in the research brief draw on the process documentation of the GJP undertaken by the ICRW research team from January 2020 to March 2021. Beginning with […]