Project inception year :

2007

Project supported by :

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Project area :

Bihar, 4 districts, 10 blocks

Project reach :

2000 grassroot women leaders

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Pahel : Women on the move

Goal :

Our aim is to empower Women Leaders in Bihar by strengthening their voice, participation, leadership, and influence in order to bring about social change on issues that affect women, particularly family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) and related issues like girls’ education and age of marriage.

Our program

C3’s program Pahel supports Grassroot Women leaders in understanding and delivering their role and responsibilities better, but also to help them be leaders in voicing atrocities against women and girls. Our program bridges the gap, and mainstreams Women Leaders in decision making processes. We do this by building leadership skills, specifically to strengthen their voice, participation, leadership and influence within the community, with focus on family planning/reproductive health issues. Further, these Women leaders also work on issues of early marriage, low education completion rates as well as poor nutritional status of girls and women. This initiative is based on the belief that enhancing capacities of Grassroot Women leaders can pay large dividends and lead to positive social change. Because of this intervention, Grassroot Women leader’s decision making in the has increased and they are able to contribute to improved services at village, block, and district levels.

Key Highlights :
  • Through our program, we have mentored three cohorts of Grassroot Women’s Leader since 2007. Starting from just 200 women representatives, today we are mentoring over 4000 women leaders in Bihar
  • 49% increase in women leaders raising family planning, reproductive health, and girls’ education related issues in panchayats.
  • Two-fold increase in women leaders’ participation in Panchayat meetings.
  • 24% increase in women leaders’ interaction with local health service providers.
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