EDUCATION FOR WOMEN' EQUALITY

Mahila Samakhya is a women's empowerment project which not only aims at service delivery but also seeks to bring about a change in women's perception about themselves and that of society in regard to women's traditional roles. It endeavours to create an environment for women to seek knowledge and information in order to make informed choices and create circumstances in which women can learn at their own pace and rhythm. The centrality of education in the struggle to achieve equality is an important focus of Mahila Samakhya.

1. Object

1. To evolve a modality of planning involving government institutions and voluntary agencies reaching out to the women in villages in a continuous dialogue so that the educative principle is not subordinated to the desire for immediate results.
2. To adopt an area intensive approach to integrate the existing efforts to provide formal and non-formal schooling, adult education upgradation of educational qualifications through condensed courses and vocational training.

2. Eligibility
Educational institutions, registered societies, public trusts and non-profit making companies which are working outside the Project Districts of Mahila Samakhya would be eligible for assistance under the Scheme.

3. Purpose of Grants
100% assistance for:-

1. Taking up well-designed fields projects for women's empowerment and education;
2. Developments of learning material, instruction/learning aids, and other aspects of technical resource development;
3. Training;
4. Creation of educational facilities for girls and women's education by taking up experimental/innovative programmes;
5. Evaluation and research;
6. Activities for dissemination of the outcome of experimental/innovative programmes and their adoption, including visits to experimental innovative projects, publications, documentation , etc;