Understanding Gender (relations) in Local Culture and Context through Ethnography: Learnings, Challenges, and Adaptations
Roundtable | Hybrid
About the Event
Working on empowering models can take different forms, and work at different levels – some organizations might take a training/mentoring/learning and analysis approach working to build women’s critical consciousness and capabilities; others might take more institution-building approaches like working to build women’s institutions; others might build/integrate institutional mechanisms that address gender concerns within different verticals of SHG programs like livelihoods, institution-building, or inclusion. There are also overlaps between the approaches.
A sensitive, mixed methods evaluation of different approaches for feasibility, replicability, scalability, and effectiveness is part of the SWAYAM program. Through SWAYAM, IWWAGE serves as a learning platform on empowerment approaches and models of institutionalizing gender and empowerment social infrastructure at multiple levels of governance in the livelihoods mission, and as a hub or resource base of feminist and SHG promoting organizations and their approaches.
A sensitive, mixed methods evaluation of different approaches for feasibility, replicability, scalability, and effectiveness is part of the SWAYAM program. Through SWAYAM, IWWAGE serves as a learning platform on empowerment approaches and models of institutionalizing gender and empowerment social infrastructure at multiple levels of governance in the livelihoods mission, and as a hub or resource base of feminist and SHG promoting organizations and their approaches.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Moumita Sarkar | Swayam | Ms. Sarkar has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry (H) from University of Calcutta followed by a Post Graduation degree in Rural Development and Management from University of Kalyani, West Bengal. She has also won the Mathematics Olympiad. She has an experience of twelve years in programme management, research, training and advocacy with national and international organizations like Ministry of Rural Development (Govt.of India), UN Women, UNDP, J-PAL and CInI (TATA Trust). Her core areas include Livelihoods and Gender. In the recent past, she has been instrumental in drafting policy documents under the guidance of the Additional Secretary and Joint Secretary of MoRD, commissioned MGNREGS action research studies to provide gender responsive recommendations based on field findings and actively engaged with the DAY NRLM team to draft the gender protocol at NIRD&PR. AS UN Volunteer she has taken the lead in preparing teaching material for three months certificate course on Livelihood Planning and Supply Chain Management in Chhattisgarh SIRD adopting a case based training model. She also undertook qualitative research studies to review the Read India programme outcomes in Bihar. She has been invited by various institutions like IIPA, VVGNLI, NIRD&PR, Bhartiya Vidyapeeth College of Nursing (Pune), Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry to deliver session on Gender. She will be based at IWWAGE, Delhi office. |
| Surabhi Awasthi | Senior Research Associate | Surabhi Awasthi is a Senior Research Associate at IWWAGE, and is currently working with the Strengthening Women’s Institutions for Agency and Empowerment (SWAYAM) for the National Rural Livelihood Mission. She has previously worked with the National Human RightsCommission as a consultant providing research support in the policy and research division on theissues related to women and children. Before joining Iwwage, she led the research team for the Geography of Philosophy Project based at IIT, Delhi, and headquartered at the University of Pittsburgh (USA). She is a trained qualitative researcher with experience in narrative inquiry and ethnography; her research interests include gender, labor, and changing family institutions. Surabhi holds an M.Phil. in Social Work from the University of Delhi, where she was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship from the University Grants Commission, India. Through her work, she aims to bridge the gap between academia and practical policy goals, particularly related to furthering women’s equality in India through education and welfare policy. In her free time Surabhi enjoys cooking and researching about food history and food science, and spending time with her cats. |