Women’s empowerment through public policies

This presentation ends a four months research on the public scheme "Mahalir Thittam" (Women scheme). The goal of this scheme is the women ’s empowerment thanks to self-help groups (SHG) formation. To reach this goal, it involves Government agencies, NGOs and banks to form and train SHGs .

The main objectives of this demonstration are

To identify the main stakeholders involved in this scheme, from the agenda settlement to the implementation :

• Multilateral actor as the IFAD
• Government stakeholder as the Tamil Nadu Corporation for the Development of Women
• Members of the civil society, as the selected NGOs and the Self-Help Groups.
• Private actors as the banks

To analyse the modalities and the specificities of their relationships :

• How can we define their partnership : is it a simple linkage or a deep collaboration ?
• Can we speak about a subordination of the civil society to the Government ?

To deduce the impacts of such a relationship on the scheme.

Speaker

Laure BURRUS, Master of Geoeconomy, Institute of Political Sciences, Bordeaux, France

Organizers

Department of Social Sciences
French Institute of Pondicherry

Venue

Jawaharlal Nehru Conference Hall
French Institute of Pondicherry
11, Saint Louis Street
Pondicherry - 605 001

Time

16:30 hrs