To create a ground in the institution of governance where women’s leadership is seen as legitimate and valued and where women are accepted as effective leaders and are not just tolerated.
Objectives:
To create a ground in the institution of governance where women’s leadership is seen as legitimate and valued and where women are accepted as effective leaders and are not just tolerated.
Geographical Spread:
-
The study covered women representatives from 5 Gram Panchayats of Padmanabham Mandal (Vishakhapatnam district) and ward corporators in Visakhapatnam municipal corporation and ward counselors in Anakapalli Muncipality and Mayor and chairperson
-
Total 100 respondents: 5 WERs, 2 women mayor & chairperson, 33 ward members & 60 other key stakeholders.
Key areas/components:
-
Purposive sampling method and descriptive case study research
-
Study the performance of GPs and ULBs of the women elected representatives in terms of in term of number of committees, their functions, no. of meetings, issues resolved, membership, income from various sources etc.
-
Current devolution of functions in local governance
Key outputs:
-
Patterns in the representation of local governance systems (gender & caste wise composition of representatives).
-
Analysis of the data: e.g. financial status of local bodies, socio-economic status of women elected representatives.
-
Facilitating and Constraining Factors of WERs in Local Self – Government Institutions
-
Expectations of all respondents & Suggestions made therewith.
-
Statistical analysis of women’s leadership as WERs. A Regression relationship was obtained
-
Key areas of concern for meaningful participation of women were highlighted.
Year/Period:
2005 – 06
