Engendering Workplaces through Gender Policy

• To assess the ways and means by which the organisation has created conditions which are conducive to gender equality in its structure, its culture and environment, with specific focus on gender mainstreaming at the institutional level;
• To understand the level of commitment towards gender mainstreaming within organisations in the voluntary sector;
• To understand the gaps in the implementation of the Vishakha Guidelines in the NGO/voluntary sector; &
• To prepare a resource manual which can help CSOs to mainstream gender in their organisations and build a gender policy as per their organisation’s need

• Documentation of gender fair practises in 13 CSOs who were VANI (Voluntary Action Network of India) members (Cecodeon, Chetana Vikas (Wardha), Disha (Saharanpur-U.P.),
• Feedback reports to the organisations studied – Gramin Vikas Vugyan Samiti -Gravis -Jodhpur, National Foundation of India -Delhi, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahai’s of India-  New Delhi, People’s Action for National Integration (PANI)- Faizabad U.P., Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Action Network (UPVAN)- Lucknow –U.P, Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA), Nagpur-Maharashtra, Chetna Vikas- Wardha -Maharashtra, Disha Social Organisation-Saharanpur-U.P., Sambandh (USS)-Cuttak, Orissa, NYSASDRI – Dhenkanal-Orissa

Published a resource manual named Engendering Workplaces: Framework for Gender Policy