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"Scale Square Initiative"
"Future Educator's of Panchayati Raj"
   

Course Rationale

The Pilot project on Capacity Building of Elected Women Representatives and other Functionaries of PRI’s aims towards promoting a gender sensitive environment through the sustenance of the organized force of leadership inculcated by these women leaders.

The strategy adopted aimed for creation of a positive environment, enabling the women functionaries to cultivate and nurture their leadership abilities, through forum formation, increasing their efficient participation at Panchayat functioning level. A vision of skill transference to future elected women leaders is resting on this strategy.

  

   

Organizing Elected Women Leaders of Tehri-Garhwal District through Block Forum Constitutions paved the way towards the creation of a common platform fusing in the positive energies and learning’s evolving from these Women Leaders. Their concerted efforts have borne results in operating the Forums on a functional wheel progressing towards self-sustenance.

SBMA has been working as a catalyst in the whole process, monitoring and supporting the initiatives taken by these women forums. The process of facilitation has enabled the functionaries to come together, identifying and prioritizing their issues, involving male folk in the process, and networking with NGOs, Government, academician’s etc. SBMA was seen as a strong support assistance provider and mobiliser in the Programme initiation phase.

There has been a gradual transformation in the role of SBMA with the emergence of the constituted Block Forums as an independent collective identity. Now the working partnership of the Block Forums and SBMA seeks to expand and strengthen the Women Leaders initiative in the entire State of Uttaranchal through the creation and networking of the Block Forums in all the Blocks of the State.

Through the tool of need based training and creation of a resource pool of master trainers the empowered forum functionaries seek to upscale the Programme in all the Districts of Uttaranchal with the help of SBMA.

Training of the Elected Women Representatives would groom them for carrying forward the skill transference process to the next genre of women leaders and this would be recognized as the success outcome of the Capacity Building Process.

A cadre of women trainers with their practical experiences of governing village communities would embark on the process of creating potential women leaders in the future, for fostering good governance within the society.

Building in core leadership capacities within the women trainers to create a positive and gender sensitive environment for the new batch of women leaders stepping after the next elections, is the envisaged desire of the ongoing TOT programme.

Process Goal:


Strengthening the forum of women ERs by creating a cadre of facilitators within the forums to scale up and sustain the process initiated in the state/ project district.

Purpose of Capacity Building Initiative:

1. Building a cadre of facilitator/ trainers on PR (from the intervention locations).

2. Building knowledge and perspective on -

i) Local Self Governance.
ii) Women participation in PR/LSG.
iii) Participatory training- perspective and methodologies.
iv) Perspective of present initiative (Pilot).
v) Perspective & prospects of linkage program participation of women forum.

3. Sensitizing the participants about the importance of women ERs in PRIs, process of training methodology and adult learning.

4. Developing basic skills related to designing and conducting a learning/ training event, using participation methodology.

- Communicating effectively, evaluating, and learning events.

 

Process Component

S.No.
Phase
Key Content Areas
1. TOT- I o LSG-ZP/KP/ZP (Governance)
o Training-perspective & methodology
(Adult learns, designing, selections of methods, facilitating learning groups
o Facilitators attitude & Behaviour
o Organizing and managing a learning event
o Formation and activating forums at community level
2. Three Field based follow up Trainings o PRI system in UA (ZP/KP/GP, GS)
o Role and potential of women forums
o Role & responsibilities of ERIs and samitees
o Women leadership : opportunity and challenges
3. Refresher Course–I (IInd TOT) Organised by SBMA o Sharing of experience
o Future role of these facilitators/trainers
o Need based input areas
(based on the experiences from the field)
4. Three Field based follow up Trainings o PRI system in UA (ZP/KP/GP, GS)
o Role and potential of women forums
o Role & responsibilities of ERIs and samitees
o Women leadership : opportunity and challenges
5. Refresher Course–II (IInd TOT) Organised by SBMA o Sharing of experience
o Future role of these facilitators/trainers
o Need based input areas
o (based on the experiences from the field)

 

Ongoing Grooming Process of Elected Women Representatives as Master Trainers