Category: Women Empowerment

October 23, 2017

Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP)

MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT | GOI

About Scheme

The Ministry has been administering ‘Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) Scheme’ since 1986-87 as a ‘Central Sector Scheme’. The STEP Scheme aims to provide skills that give employability to women and to provide competencies and skill that enable women to become self-employed/entrepreneurs. The Scheme is intended to benefit women who are in the age group of 16 years and above across the country.

The grant under the Scheme is given to an institution/ organisation including NGOs directly and not the States/ UTs. The assistance under STEP Scheme will be available in any sector for imparting skills related to employability and entrepreneurship, including but not limited to the Agriculture, Horticulture, Food Processing, Handlooms, Tailoring, Stitching, Embroidery, Zari etc, Handicrafts, Computer & IT enable services along with soft skills and skills for the work place such as spoken English, Gems & Jewellery, Travel & Tourism, Hospitality.

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September 12, 2017

UN Women

To increase growth of economic opportunities for women, UN Women supports:

Building Entrepreneurship.
Promoting women’s business ownership, microfinance efforts, and financial markets

Asset-Building.
Financial empowerment through women’s land rights and property ownership

Financial Literacy.
Improving women’s financial literacy and providing training

Better Jobs.
Strategies to improve wages, working conditions, labour standards, benefits, and training opportunities for women workers

Reviving traditional textiles and economic opportunities for women.

UN Women India Multi Country Office
Officer in Charge: Manish Berry

C-83, Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024 INDIA.
Tel: +91 11 404 52300
Fax: +91 11 404 52333

August 2, 2017

National Commission for Women

The National Commission for Women was set up as statutory body in January 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990 ( Act No. 20 of 1990 of Govt.of India ) to :

review the Constitutional and Legal safeguards for women ;
recommend remedial legislative measures ;
facilitate redressal of grievances and
advise the Government on all policy matters affecting women.

In keeping with its mandate, the Commission initiated various steps to improve the status of women and worked for their economic empowerment during the year under report. The Commission completed its visits to all the States / UTs except Lakshdweep and prepared Gender Profiles to assess the status of women and their empowerment. It received a large number of complaints and acted suo-moto in several cases to provide speedy justice.

It took up the issue of child marriage, sponsored legal awareness programmes, Parivarik Mahila Lok Adalats and reviewed laws such as Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, PNDT Act 1994, Indian Penal Code 1860 and the National Commission for Women Act, 1990 to make them more stringent and effective. It organized workshops / consultations, constituted expert committees on economic empowerment of women, conducted workshops / seminars for gender awareness and took up publicity campaign against female foeticide, violence against women etc. in order to generate awareness in the society against these social evils.

Website: http://ncw.nic.in/