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Impact Assessment of Training of Women Elected Representatives

• About the Project

• Project Status

• Major Objectives

• Project Funding

• Core Team Members 

• Project Report

About the Project

India has 3641 urban local bodies - 107 municipal corporations, 1439 municipal councils and 2095 Nagar Panchayats with total elected representatives numbering 67,990. Of these number of elected women representatives is 22,665. Most of these women entered politics due to reservation of seats. Since many of them are first time timers, training them to perform effectively in urban local bodies is essential. In order to help the women councillors perform their task well, the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, provides funds to state and regional level training institutions for conducting training programmes. The present study was undertaken to assess the impact of training on the functioning of women elected representatives.

Project Status

Completed (2006)

Major Objectives  

The main objective of the study was to assess the impact of training on the women elected representatives. The purpose was to understand if the training programmes have been useful in the day to day functioning of the trained women councillors and also suggest if changes are required in the training programmes imparted.

Project Funding

• Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India

Team Members working on the project at NIUA  

1. Prof. Usha P Raghupathi

2. Ms. M.Parvati

3. Ms. Promila Jain

4. Mr. S.P.Tyagi

5. Mr. M Ahmed

Project Report

• Impact Assessment of Training of Women Elected Representative

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