The Gender Community is pleased to share its yet another – and the last - initiative of 2013, which is a collaborative venture between Sampark (a Bangalore based NGO), GIZ (New Delhi), and the Gender Community (as a facilitating knowledge partner) to highlight issues specifically concerning Violence Against Women, and focus on how Microfinance to women addresses VAW.
Via this Blog, we are sharing the key deliverables of this collaborative venture with a request to development practitioners across the country. If this issue – VAW and Microfinance - falls within your domain of expertise (research or practical), please contribute by submitting a response, and sending any papers you may have written, which will be duly acknowledged in due course.
Key Deliverables (Time Line: October-December 2013)
• Hosting a discussion on the Gender Community’s e-platform to discuss the key links between access to finance and reduction of violence against women (VAW), in theory and practice - Watch out for this discussion on Gender Community’s online platform! Coming Soon!
• The discussion will be followed by a paper summarising research undertaken, and practical experiences of civil society organisations in addressing VAW though microfinance as well as other initiatives/interventions.
• A second paper will be on Violence Against Women and how Microfinance does or can address this. This paper will also benefit from the field visits to three locations, and key informant interviews that are being conducted by Sampark and Priyasakhi Mahila Mandal (Indore/Madhya Pradesh).
• A consultative seminar with a group of experts and practitioners to share the findings and information collected/collated based on the e-discussion, the two written papers, and the field visits.
• Final Report – a document with recommendations on the lines of an ‘action plan’ - for dissemination and advocacy purposes that shall be undertaken by Sampark, GIZ and their network partners. In addition, the action plan will be shared with Gender Community members as well as relevant ministries/government agencies.
The Gender Community takes this opportunity to thank its members both in Sampark (Bangalore) and GIZ (New Delhi), who took this initiative; particularly, we would like to thank Dr. Smita Premchander, who is also one of the advisory members of the Gender Community, and Jonna Bickel (GIZ).
We would once again like to draw our members’ attention that through its Knowledge Management work, the Gender Community continuously tries to reach far and wide to development practitioners so as to facilitate their work to the optimum, and thereby accelerate the achievements of many of our development goals. It is our endeavour that more and more practitioners in India/South Asia, realize the importance (and potential) of the field of knowledge management in the development sector, and make use of the services such as the ones offered by the Gender Community of UN Solution Exchange.
Those following closely the activities of the Gender Community would know that the Community’s profile is fast changing. In the last three/four years, we are no longer restricted to ‘e-queries-consolidated reply’ mode of knowledge sharing or knowledge management. The Community’s work goes much beyond its online discussions/services. Our last Annual Report (2012) is a testimony to that. Please access ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/gen/resource/res_info_01011302.pdf (PDF; Size: 1.67MB) to know more about the Community’s work and share it, if you can, within your networks, encouraging others to join the Community. Membership to the Gender Community is free and voluntary; members can unsubscribe anytime they wish.
Update “YOUR PROFILES”
We would like to close this Blog with our regular call - ‘update your profiles’! Please access ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/gen/SE_Gender_Memb_Form.doc - fill the requisite information if you have not done it as yet, and send it back to us. The membership form can be shared with anyone interested to join the Gender Community of Practice.
Any feedback that helps us to promote, strengthen and improve our Knowledge Management work and services is most welcome. You can address your mails to Resource Person & Moderator – Gender Community at se-gen@solutionexchange-un.net.in
Via this Blog, we are sharing the key deliverables of this collaborative venture with a request to development practitioners across the country. If this issue – VAW and Microfinance - falls within your domain of expertise (research or practical), please contribute by submitting a response, and sending any papers you may have written, which will be duly acknowledged in due course.
Key Deliverables (Time Line: October-December 2013)
• Hosting a discussion on the Gender Community’s e-platform to discuss the key links between access to finance and reduction of violence against women (VAW), in theory and practice - Watch out for this discussion on Gender Community’s online platform! Coming Soon!
• The discussion will be followed by a paper summarising research undertaken, and practical experiences of civil society organisations in addressing VAW though microfinance as well as other initiatives/interventions.
• A second paper will be on Violence Against Women and how Microfinance does or can address this. This paper will also benefit from the field visits to three locations, and key informant interviews that are being conducted by Sampark and Priyasakhi Mahila Mandal (Indore/Madhya Pradesh).
• A consultative seminar with a group of experts and practitioners to share the findings and information collected/collated based on the e-discussion, the two written papers, and the field visits.
• Final Report – a document with recommendations on the lines of an ‘action plan’ - for dissemination and advocacy purposes that shall be undertaken by Sampark, GIZ and their network partners. In addition, the action plan will be shared with Gender Community members as well as relevant ministries/government agencies.
The Gender Community takes this opportunity to thank its members both in Sampark (Bangalore) and GIZ (New Delhi), who took this initiative; particularly, we would like to thank Dr. Smita Premchander, who is also one of the advisory members of the Gender Community, and Jonna Bickel (GIZ).
We would once again like to draw our members’ attention that through its Knowledge Management work, the Gender Community continuously tries to reach far and wide to development practitioners so as to facilitate their work to the optimum, and thereby accelerate the achievements of many of our development goals. It is our endeavour that more and more practitioners in India/South Asia, realize the importance (and potential) of the field of knowledge management in the development sector, and make use of the services such as the ones offered by the Gender Community of UN Solution Exchange.
Those following closely the activities of the Gender Community would know that the Community’s profile is fast changing. In the last three/four years, we are no longer restricted to ‘e-queries-consolidated reply’ mode of knowledge sharing or knowledge management. The Community’s work goes much beyond its online discussions/services. Our last Annual Report (2012) is a testimony to that. Please access ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/gen/resource/res_info_01011302.pdf (PDF; Size: 1.67MB) to know more about the Community’s work and share it, if you can, within your networks, encouraging others to join the Community. Membership to the Gender Community is free and voluntary; members can unsubscribe anytime they wish.
Update “YOUR PROFILES”
We would like to close this Blog with our regular call - ‘update your profiles’! Please access ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/gen/SE_Gender_Memb_Form.doc - fill the requisite information if you have not done it as yet, and send it back to us. The membership form can be shared with anyone interested to join the Gender Community of Practice.
Any feedback that helps us to promote, strengthen and improve our Knowledge Management work and services is most welcome. You can address your mails to Resource Person & Moderator – Gender Community at se-gen@solutionexchange-un.net.in
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