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around the world the most marginalized
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women's voices are those that are not
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heard by the authorities when they're
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planning programs for social programs
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for their own populations woman's unpaid
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work at home her sustenance of the
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family her rearing of children these are
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not recognized in macro policy as far as
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we are not giving importance to women
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and their living conditions how a family
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or a society or a country can be brought
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up in Better Way women form half of
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India's population and make enormous
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contribution to its
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economy yet they lag behind in almost
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all socioeconomic
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indicators though there have been
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several government schemes and policies
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for the welfare of women none of them
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have a measurable impact in terms of
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gender gender responsive budgeting is an
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initiative to ensure that the entire
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budgeting process is carried out through
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a gender perspective in order to bring
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gender equality and women's
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empowerment gender responsib budgeting
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is a very important tool that un women
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uses to work with governments to ensure
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that planning takes into account the
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special needs of women around the world
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un women since 2011 has worked with 65
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different countries to incorporate
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gender responsive
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budgeting of the 65 countries 25 of
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those countries have adopted
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gender-based policies and plannings in
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their National development plans we
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think it's important important because
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it enables the countries and leaders of
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the country to see how their allocations
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of public funds will contribute to
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gender equality and women's empowerment
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I think one important point about gender
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responsive budgeting especially the way
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it was done in India is that one hoped
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that it would create an a Consciousness
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among amongst policy makers we started
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with the production of a gender budget
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statement uh we moved on to creating
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gender Budget Sales in 53 Ministries and
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Department ments which is very important
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because after all when we are saying
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that all Ministries should do gender
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responsive budgeting you need some
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institutional mechanism some focal point
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some cell within these Ministries to
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sort of spearhead the work on gender so
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again that's a good
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thing the Sundar banss a cluster of more
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than 100 Islands situ ated in West
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Bengal offers numerous problems to the
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women living here in terms of
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geographical challenges Health
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livelihood and all the basic amenities
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all of these pushing them into debts and
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poverty the department of science and
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technology has been implementing a
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scheme called science and technology for
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women and with a basic focus of
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providing technological put to women in
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the rural
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areas the Vive Anand Institute of
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biotechnology in sundarbans has been
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working for the people at grassroot
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level through relevant Science and
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Technology
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interventions along with the ministry of
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Science and Technologies seed division
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The Institute has been training the
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local women in banana tissue
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culture when we transfer
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technology two women a handholding would
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be required an absorption of Technology
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May Pro probably require a different
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technique and hence there are uh there
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is a need for special gender measures to
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be taken in this case what was
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conceptualized is a women Technology
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Park the tissue culture experiment which
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was done in sundarbans is a part of the
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women Technology Park set up at Sagar
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Islands the women's Technology Park was
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a place for the rural women to gain
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inputs on technologies that help in
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upgrading their skills and enhancing
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their
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income the women have learned a
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technique called tissue culture which is
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a highend technology and these are the
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women who are not very scientifically
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qualified but they have done it the
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hardening is done by rural women who are
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absolutely uneducated and they have
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taken it up and they have also learned
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the business of selling these
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plantlets so I think it's a win-win situ
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ation for all the groups the rural women
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the scientists who develop the
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technology the women who are selling it
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and also the farmers who are producing
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the
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bananas nagaland a state where
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agriculture is the major economic
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Mainstay has over 50% women farmers
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despite this they have little access to
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land and
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resources are seldom seen as farmers and
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do not benefit from any government
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schemes or
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subsidies Atma or agricultural
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management technology agency is a grb
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initiative to disseminate agricultural
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activities for sustainable Agricultural
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Development focused area of Atma is that
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it promotes gender mainstreaming in
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agriculture 30% of the funds of this
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scheme have to go to women
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Farmers we have a lot of committees you
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know decision making bodies at the Block
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Level at the district level at the state
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level the scheme provides for
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involvement of women in every such
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decision- making
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body the outcome of Atma is already
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visible in The Villages of Mok Chung
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where Agricultural Extension programs
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are happening in full swing with women
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leading the way
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by way of having more women farmer
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Friends by way of having women uh in
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their advisory committees at the Block
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District level by way of women attending
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more of Village based trainings
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demonstrations Farm schools so we
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actually see a change happening you know
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with the launch of this Atma scheme and
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we see that the policy Intervention
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which we had made at the government of
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India level it is we see it happening in
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the states and field
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area Kerala the only 100% literate state
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in India is entrapped in the old
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patriarchal system which manifests
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itself in violence against women
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declining land rights for women and
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their poor employment
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profile So based on a lot of research
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which had come uh when uh the new
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government came in power in 2006 just on
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the eve of the 11th plan we had a big
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program to uh address the social and
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economic issues facing women in Kerala
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we see a very purpose of kind of
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planning in which a policy maker
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actually sits and reflects on how can we
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address women's needs in sectors like
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infrastructure which are not
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traditionally seen as as gender
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related most rural women in Kerala are
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compelled to travel long distances every
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day to reach their
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workplace those women who travel from
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outside the city especially from long
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distances either they have to stay there
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alone or with their family because they
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will be having small children everybody
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is not
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single so a basic thing is to give them
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a better safe and affordable
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accommodation in the nearest area where
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they are being
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employed so this is the basic idea by
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which a planning board of Kerala came to
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the field of constructing such building
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in Kerala the Kerala planning board's
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Innovative housing scheme for working
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women involved constructing apartments
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close to their workplace thereby
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ensuring them a safe and convenient
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stay
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for a lot of Statistics says that the
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domestic violence and uh issues related
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to public places are increasing day by
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day whenever a woman is subjected to
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violence maybe physical or mental they
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approach the doctor most often the
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doctors do not understand that
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particular uh lady is a victim of
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violence
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so such cases are neglected just like
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any other medical legal cases when we
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thought of gender budgeting we thought
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of having some centers in our
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institutions to cater the gender issues
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especially those involved in the
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domestic
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violence the bumika counseling centers
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were started at all district headquarter
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hospitals by the government of Kerala as
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a part of its grb initiative to rescue
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and support the women survivors of
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domestic
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violence a beneficiary who are coming to
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the cell they will get all the
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facilities that is assistance of a
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police assistance of an advocate and if
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they want any Social Securities like uh
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accommodation and all this all the
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services will get under this one
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roof well compar the other state of
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India carala got very high score in
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education health and other social living
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conditions and standard but in the case
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of
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employability while we are coming to
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that point it's little bit lower when
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compared to
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men as a part of grp the women's
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Development Corporation of Kerala
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started reach a professional grooming
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Academy to impart women and girls
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employability training in various
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sectors through spoken English classes
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computer operations and several other
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social
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skills for
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slowly um with great counseling and
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gender budgeting exercises of the
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government plus training programs
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organized by the department of women and
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child there has been some triggering of
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thought at all levels regarding what
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should be done for women gender
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responsive budget allocation coupled
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with some policy directives coupled with
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a procedure for involvement of women at
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the at the grassroot level at The
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Cutting Edge level can really bring
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about change gender budgeting is now
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come to be accepted as a way of
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integrating the needs of women into
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budgeting which is a very important
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component of macro policy gender
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responsive budgeting is goes a long way
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towards ensuring that policies will be
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appropriate for meeting women's needs
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and empowering women but much work needs
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to be done across all sectors I think we
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have to come out and Peg the grb work in
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the larger macroeconomic framework
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unless and until the larger
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macroeconomic framework is engendered I
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think grb alone in a limited approach of
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merely allocating of tracking and
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interrogating expenditure will not
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suffice and therefore our pitch our
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approach has to be much broader to
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engender the larger macroeconomic
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framework
