Empowerment of women/ S. Baluchamy.

1. Introduction
Constitutional Safeguard—Initiatives Focused in Five Year
Plans—India's Special Initiatives for the Empowerment of
Women—Welfare and Support Services—Employment and
Training—Socio-economic Programme—Swayamsiddha —
Swashakti Project—Balika Samriddhi Yojana—Swadhar—
Plan of Action to Combat Sexual Exploitation of Women and
Children —Women's Empowerment Year —National
Commission for Women—Rashtriya Mahila Kosh—National
Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development-
Central Social Welfare Board—Programmes of the Board—
Awareness Generation Programme for Rural and Poor
Women—Condensed Courses of Education for Women—
Vocational Training for Women —Socio-Economic
Programme—Agro-based Units—Production Units—Creche
Programme—Working Women's Hostels—Family Counseling
Centres—Short Stay Home Programme—Other Programmes
of the Board —Mahila Mandal Programme—State Board
Administration —Publicity and Publication —Food and
Nutrition Board—Iirformation and Mass Education—Holiday
Camp Programmes—Beneficiaries—Composition and Pattern
of A^istance—Type of Irrstitutions/Organisations Eligible for
Assistance—Administration—Hostels for Working Women
—Voluntary Action Bureau—Field Counseling—National
Policy for the Empowerment of Women (2001)—Goal and
Objectives —Policy Prescriptions —Decision Making —
Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in the Development
Process —Economic Empowerment of Women—Micro
Credit—Women and Economy—Globalization—Women and
Agriculture—Women and Industry-Suppnart Services—Social
Empowerment of Women—Science and Technology—Women
in Difficult Circumstances—Violence against Women—Rights
of the Girl Child—Mass Media—Operational Strategies-
Institutional Mechanisms —Resource Management —
Legislation —Gender Sensitization —Panchayati Raj
Institutions —Partnership with the Voluntary Sector
Organizations—International Cooperation

2. Review
Status of Women in India—Status of Women in the World-
Empowerment of Women —Approaches to Women
Empowerment—Provisioirs of Law Affecting Women—India
Empowered

3. Awareness Generation Projects for Rural and
Poor Women
Concept —Name of the Scheme—Objective—Programme
Content—Identification of NGOs for undertaking Awareness
Generation Projects and Procedure of Sanction—Topics for
Discussion in Camps—Status of Women—Women and Law-
Women and Health—Commuiuty Health and Hygiene—
Women, Technology and Environment—Women and
Economy—Women and the State Government—Religion,
Culture and Women—Women and Social Action—A Broad
Framework for Training of Organisers for Voluntary
Organisations undertaking Awareness Generation Projects for
Rural and Poor Women—The Trainees—The Focus of
Training—The Objectives—The Contents—The Possibility of
Inbuilt Evaluation and Rolling Plan—The Methodology-
Training Period—AGP Organizers Training Institutions—Arul
Anandar College - Karumathur—Gandhigram Rural Institute
- Gandhigram—State Resource Centre - Chennai—Major
Activities of the Training Institutions—AAC-Karumathur—
GRI-Gandhigram—Vision—Mission—Objectives of GRI—
Objectives of ACE&E-SRC-Chennai-Methodologies
Followed in AGP

4 Methodology
Area of the Study—Sources of Data—Sample of the Study—
Tools Used for Data Collection—Pre-Testing of the Tool-
Method of Data Collection—Field Work—Limitations of the
Study

5. Results and Discussion
NGOs—Organizers—Beneficiaries

6. Summary and Conclusions
Beneficiaries—Organizers-Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs)—Conclusion
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