SANGAM: CONVERGENCE AS A STRATEGY TO EMPOWER GIRLS AND WOMEN
Co-hosted by: 3D Program for Girls and Women and Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA)
Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm, Room MDC 4, YASHADA, Pune
AGENDA
- 9:00 am REGISTRATION
- 9:30 am OPENING AND WELCOME
Chair: Sumedh Gurjar, Director, Research and Documentation Centre, YASHADA
• Opening Remarks and Introductions
Sumedh Gurjar, Director, Research and Documentation Centre, YASHADA
Geeta Rao Gupta, Executive Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women
• Overview of the 3D Program for Girls and Women
Geeta Rao Gupta, Executive Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women
• District and Municipal Government Perspectives on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
(listed according to arrival/departure time)
Yashwant Shitole, Additional CEO, Pune Zilla Parishad
Kunal Kumar, Municipal Commissioner, Pune City
• Discussion
- 10:45 am TEA
- 11:00 am COVERGENCE IN ACTION
Chair: Ravi Verma, Regional Director, ICRW, Asia Office
• Convergence for Adolescents
Sumedh Gurjar, Director, Research and Documentation Centre, YASHADA
• Mission Convergence Delhi
Anupama Pandey, Formerly with Mission Convergence, City of Delhi
• Convergence in Urban Health, Pune
Leena Rajan, Former Head, Community Processes, Health of Urban Poor Program, Pune
• Discussion
- 11:45 am WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICES AND NEEDS
Chair: Pradnya Dasarwar, Coordinator, Project Monitoring Unit, Center for Research and Documentation, YASHADA
• Urban Women’s Perspectives
Mangal Jadhav, Member, KKPKP and SWaCH and Lakshmi Narayan, Co-founder, KKPKP
• Rural Women’s Perspectives
Meena Shendkar, Coordinator, MASUM Rural Program and Sarpanch, Pimpri Village, Purandar Block and Kajal Jain, Project Coordinator, MASUM
• Discussion
- 12:30 pm CORPORATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVES ON COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES
Chair: Sia Nowrojee, Program Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women
• Yardi Software India
Bharati Kotwal, Head, CSR, Yardi Software India
• Pune City Connect
Ruchi Mathur, CEO, Pune City Connect
• Forbes Marshall
Priti Kibe, Senior Manager, CSR, Department of Social Initiatives, Forbes Marshall
• Tech Mahindra Foundation
Vijay Wavare, Manager, Pune and Nagpur, Tech Mahindra Foundation
• Discussion
- 1:15 pm LUNCH
- 2:00 pm ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AS AN ENTRY POINT FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
Chair: Madhu Deshmukh, Senior Consultant, ICRW/3D Program for Girls and Women
Geeta Rao Gupta, Executive Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women
Respondent: Sidharam Mashale, RMO, MAVIM
- 2:30 pm 3D PROGRAM LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
Chair: Geeta Rao Gupta, Executive Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women
Ravi Verma, Regional Director, ICRW, Asia Office
Madhu Deshmukh, Senior Consultant, ICRW/3D Program for Girls and Women
- 3:00 pm GROUP WORK: To explore and report back on opportunities and constraints for convergence across stakeholders and sectors for women’s empowerment
Chair: Madhu Deshmukh, Senior Consultant, ICRW/3D Program for Girls and Women
• Facilitators/Rural groups: Anand Pawar, Executive Director, Samyak/3D Program Liaison Officer; Geeta Rao Gupta, Executive Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women; Shweta Bankar, Technical Specialist, ICRW
• Facilitators/Urban groups: Lakshmi Narayan, Co-Founder, KKPKP; Madhu Deshmukh, Senior Consultant, ICRW/3D Program for Girls and Women
- 4:15 pm TEA BREAK
- 4:30 pm REPORT BACK AND DISCUSSION
Facilitator: Anand Pawar, Executive Director, Samyak/3D Program Liaison Officer - 5:00 pm NEXT STEPS AND CLOSING REMARKS
Geeta Rao Gupta, Executive Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women
Find the full report on the Sangam workshop here.
Photos taken by Shirish Waghmare, September 2017.