1. Presented by-Purabi Bharadwaj
Suchismita Patra
Chandan Singh
Arbind Kumar Kujur
Gyana Ranjan Samal
Guided by-Prof.Sukant Kumar Samal

2. CONTENTS
 1. Establishment
 2. Mandate
 3.Objectives
 4. Thrust Areas
 5. Good Governance
 6. GENDER ISSUES
 7. TYPES OF GENDER ISSUES
 8. How does central government help this projects
 9.CONCLUSION
 10. SUGGESTION

3. Establishment
The Indian Council of Agriculture Research established
the DRWA in the month of April 1996 at Bhubaneswar
during VIII Five Year Plan. Its actual functioning
started in 1998 with joining of regular staff.

4.  VISION:DRWA is to empower women engaged in
agricultural fields to enhance the knowledge, skills and
attitude.
 GOAL: To achieve gender equality.

5. Director 's Desk
Ms KRISHNA SRINATH
Women have traditionally been playing very important role in all sections
of agriculture and the need of the hour is to strengthen their participation
by empowering them with gender friendly technologies that help in
increasing the production and also reduce drudgery for those who carry
out the farming operations.

6. To identify gender issues and test appropriateness of
available with women perspective for promoting gender
mainstreaming in research and extension for empowerment
of farmwomen and capacity building of scientists, planners
and policy makers to respond to the needs of the farm
women.

7. Objectives
 To create a database on gender specific information about
men’s and women’s role in food production and agriculture
development for effecting technologies, programs and
policies.
 To test the appropriateness of farm technologies and
programs and policies in terms of gender sensitivity in
collaboration with relevant national and international
organizations and suggest suitable modifications.
 To develop drudgery reducing options for decreasing the
workload and increasing the efficiency of women.

8. Contd…
 To develop gender sensitive training modules and materials
and impart training for capacity building of
scientists, researchers, planners and policy makers for
gender mainstreaming and practical application of gender
related technologies.
 To develop and publish gender sensitive materials, create
network linkage through journals and information sharing.

9. Thrust Areas
 Identification of gender issues in agriculture with respect to
occupational health hazard, food security, drudgery
reduction, access, control and management of resources.
 Building data bank on gender in agriculture.
 Technology testing and refinement to suit gender needs.
 Development of training modules for gender mainstreaming
and gender sensitization.

10. Good Governance
The priorities being given are
 Mostly majority of elected members are both first
time & illiterate too at times. The necessities is there to
enable them to equip them with proper attitude,skills
and knowledge as these would ultimately contribute
towards effective implementation of developmental
programmes in rural India .
Good governance will minimise corruption,the views
of minorities will be taken into account .

11. GENDER ISSUES
 Gender Means the socially constructed differences in
roles and responsibilities assigned to women and men
in a given culture or location and the societal
structures that support them.
 Gender Role The role refers to the activities
performed by men and women in different situations
and in different times and within the different
cultures, classes, castes, ethnic groups etc.

12.  Gender Analysis Gender analysis is a tool to better
understand the realities of the women and men,
whose lives are impacted by planned development .
 These include gender issues with respect to social
relations; activities; access and control over resources,
services, institutions of decision-making and networks
of power and authority and needs, the distinct needs
of men and women, both practical and strategic.

13.  Strategic Gender Interests Strategic gender needs
are the needs women identify because of their
subordinate position to men in their society. These
vary according to particular context.
 They relate to gender division of labour, power &
control and may include such issues as legal rights,
domestic violence, equal wages etc. meeting strategic
needs helps women to achieve greater equality. It also
changes existing role and therefore challenges
women’s sub-ordinate position.

14.  Gender Discrimination :Unfavourable treatment of
individuals on the basis of their gender.

15.  Gender Mainstreaming Mainstreaming, a gender
perspective, is the process of assessing the
implications for women and men of any planned
action, including legislation, policies and
programmes, in all areas and at all levels.
 It is a strategy for making women’s, as well as men’s
concerns and experiences, an integral dimension of
the design, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation of policies and programmes in all political,
economic and societal spheres so that women and
men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.

16. Strategies for Gender Mainstreaming
 Women’s education .
 Change in agriculture curriculum .
 Creating women leaders in panchayats .
 Delivery system through mass media .
 Capacity building programmes .
 Extension and research priority .
 Women specific micro-economic policy .
 Development of net work among women .
 Organizing gender sensitive seminars/work
shops Equitable distribution of assets .
 Ensuring food security .

17. TYPES OF GENDER ISSUES
Gender Issues in Animal Husbandry
Selection of
speciesof
Selection
species
Sharing of Taking
benefits responsibility
Control over
products

18. GENDER ISSUES IN EXTENSION
GENDER ISSUES IN EXTENSION
Cultural Location Livelihood Invisibility Extension
biasness specific integration management

19. Gender Issues in Social Sector
Education Family nutrition
Entertainm
ent Gender Issues in Mobility
Social Sector
Infant
Exposure mortality
Employment

20. How does central government
help this projects !!!
 IMPLEMENTATION
 TOWARDS CULTURE ,
 TOWARDS SOCIETY ,
 TOWARDS MANKIND ,
 TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY .

21. TOWARDS CULTURE
 The priorities being given is to ensure capacity
building support to the elected members and officials
of Panchayati Raj institution , which will significantly
enhance their performance.
 Panchayat training must promote a culture of oneness
among panchayati leaders and officials , through
exposure visits and interaction between people to
people as well as peer to peer .

22. TOWARDS SOCIETY
 The poorest and marginalised sections need to be
enlightened and empowered through participatory
planning process , so that they can actively participate
in the planning , implementing and monitoring
process .

23. TOWARDS MANKIND
 The voices of most vulnerable in the society will be
heard in decision making and the rural administration
will be responsive to the present and future needs of
the rural population .
 Its democracy to be truly empowering a individual
women engaged in agriculture .

24. TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY
 Sustainable agricultural development rests on the
partnership between man and land.
 Sustainability cannot be achieved without the partnership
between men and women. They are like two wheels of a
cart and together only they can move towards progress.
 The country has achieved much progress in agricultural
and the growth can be further accelerated only by
harnessing all resources including the human resource,
fifty percent of which is women.

25. CONCLUSION
 Empowerment of individual women in agri sectors
would create new demand and pressures on quality
services and only on effective governance system alone
can manage these new demand.
 So , women are being given the main priorities. Rural
Governance does not occur by chance it must be
demanded.

26. “Nature gave women too much power;
the law giving them too little”.
- Will Henry

27. SUGGESTION
 Government should set up various knowledge centres
in villages to educate the women farmers & train them
which will lead to women empowerment.
 Strict checking towards gender inequality in villages
should be done by the govt.

28. THANK YOU