From Opportunities to Capacities: A Multi-Sectoral Approach
to Enhancing Gender Responsive Governance
Output3: Advocacy, Networking and Coordinating
To advocate, coordinate and network with key stakeholders for ensuring gender responsive
governance through institutions of local governance
Two review meetings with all the members of the project implementing SIRDs have
enabled sharing of experiences and learnings and creation of networks between the
partners. The partners have shared their own resources, ideas, knowledge materials
and experiences. They have learnt from each other how a best practice has been initiated
and sustained, how advocacy has worked to bring in a certain policy, say that of
mandatory holding Mahila Gram Sabhas. These have been occasions to bring knowledge
building and actual practice together on the same platform, so that each benefits
from the other, each strengthens the other. The E Repository is as much a product
of networking as it is of knowledge building.
A lot of advocacy is in the offing. Once the GRG matrix is finalized, NIRDPR and
UN Women will take it forward as an advocacy tool to promote gender responsive governance
across states. The GFP Handbook too is an extremely important advocacy tool for
institutionalising GFP across the country. Finally, the project is creating campaign
material for GFP in the form of posters which can be translated to different regional
languages and used in Gram Panchayats to promote the idea of GFP and GRG.