GIRL POWER Project
GPP establishes District Entrepreneurs Support Center India is still striving to empower its rural women and bring them to the mainstream. For decades, women have remained engaged in household chores and ‘unpaid’ works. With growing awareness and increasing education levels, women are excelling in all fields and supporting their families financially. With support from projects like Girl Power, they are learning entrepreneurial skill that is helping us build a more egalitarian society TEAM GIRL POWER
mproving the empowerment status of rural women and girls involves personal human rights, social equality, and economic conditions. The experience of women and girls in the newly formed State, Jharkhand is no different; the women are still excluded from their basic rights. Empowering of women and girls implies making a domain in which they can make free choices for their self-awareness and for the betterment of society in all aspects. Empowerment includes enabling women to acquire basic leadership and achieve efficiency in social, economic, and political aspects. In order to give a boost to the empowerment of women, Girl Power Project funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the All India Institute of Local SelfGovernment (AIILSG) in Jharkhand addresses the objective to strengthen the ability of Indian civil society to
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perform its role as independent agent of change, implementing actions that bring transformative change in the lives of 5000 women and girls. The project aims for holistic development and empowerment of civil society organisations (CSOs) working on women’s support and empowerment in the State to achieve the objective of the project,and proposes training, skill building, policy dialogue, and network formation. In pursuance of this, the project team needs to establish ten Entrepreneurs Support Centres at the district level to handhold women and girls to become successful social entrepreneurs. It is expected that around 1000 women will avail the benefits of the centres over the project period. These Entrepreneur Support Centres will be attached to 10 selected CSOs/SHGs (Self Help Groups), who have the infrastructure and manpower to conduct these activities. The team has already established two district support centers with the help of CSO members. Starting with the same, first District Entrepreneurs Support Center was established in December at Khunti District with the help of Center for Entrepreneurship. The support center is located in Chalambartoli, 8 kms from Khunti district headquarters on
