Dear Members,

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The Gender Community has decided to report live and online from Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh.

DON’T MISS IF YOU CAN!

In Sitapur, we are engaging with the Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) to capture their voices and concerns on issues of – particularly, Violence against Women (VAW).

The Gender Community is facilitating as a knowledge partner a two-day learning event, 9-10 December 2013, with EWRs in Sitapur District. The aim is to understand how EWRs address issues of Gender Based Violence (GBV), specifically violence against women and young girls; and whether they are empowered themselves to provide active local leadership in combating VAW/GBV.

This event organized by Women's Resource and Advocacy Centre (WRAC-Chandigarh), National Alliance of Women (NAWO-North) in collaboration with National Commission for Women (NCW) is supported by the Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS)-DFID.

Dr. Pam Rajput, Chairperson-High Level Committee on the Status of Women, Government of India, and Ms. Shamina Shafiq, Member, National Commission for Women are leading and are actively involved in this event. Both held a press conference yesterday in Sitapur briefing the media about the purpose of engaging with the EWRS. They were joined by Ms. Sampat Pal, Founder-Gulabi Gang.

Engaging with EWRs through a learning process is expected to yield a critical mass of know-how and experiences, which can help to empower EWRs and mainstream the issue of VAW in local governance institutions more effectively.

The event promoting cross-learning and sharing among EWRs is also encouraging a dialogue between EWRs and other relevant stakeholders (including the Police); it also brings EWRs in a face to face conversation with survivors of violence.

We hope our members would FOLLOW US in SITAPUR through our LIVE WEB CAST; WEBINAR (To Be Confirmed) and our other multi-media forums. If you can, share this information with many others.

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 me at malika.basu@one.un.org  or send to se-gen@solutionexchange-un.net.in 

Peace and Solidarity

Malika Basu

Resource Person & Moderator

Gender Community

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