A thematic research center under the Amrita School of Social & Behavioural Sciences that promotes gender equality and fosters women’s empowerment.
Graduate and postgraduate educational Internationalprogramspartnerships and collaboration programs Basic and applied research related to women’s empowerment Community engagement and intervention design and Monitoringimplementationandevaluation /Impact assessment The activities of the Center for
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KEY ACTIVITIES ABOUT THE CENTER Center for GenderEmpowermentWomen’s&Equality IMPLEMENTATION & SOCIAL CREATIONKNOWLEDGEIMPACT
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MISSION
DISSEMINATIONKNOWLEDGE “If you believe in the innate potential of a woman— to be creative, to be nurturing— then putting technology in her hands will only amplify whatever she has to offer and will greatly contribute to the benefit of society.”
Dr. Bhavani Rao Dean, Amrita School of Social and Behavioural Sciences UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (India) Director, Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality Director, AMMACHI Labs Gender and Women’s
The Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality seeks to increase women’s empowerment as an equitable approach towards achieving gender equality through participatory Action Implementation Knowledge dissemination. Chancellor Amma & former President Sri Ram Nath Kovind present women sanitation from rural villages with ODF certificates, 2017
Equality
Empowement are distributed across three core areas: AB ILITY AND LIVELI OO D AND S ILL AND CU VI O NM C LI M TE CHAN GE AN D S TE R 13 6 12 10 15 EQUALITYGENDER5MThe establishment of the Amrita University UNESCO Chair will support India s progress to ards a hieving the UN s 2030 Agenda for TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD: THE 2030 AGENDA Our projects align with the United Nations theholdingDevelopmentSustainablegoalsSDG5atcoreofour research and field deployments.
“Champions”
Research,
3 Supported by: MA Math Courses: Basic Sewing Operator, MS Office, Fabric Painting, Artificial Jewelry Making, Soap Making 101 Villages & Amrita SREE Scaling women’s empowerment initiatives accross India Supported by: MSDE, NSDC, in collaboration with World Bank (Multi-Location) SANKALP - Skill Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion Supported by: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham & CSR Amrita Gender WorkshopConversationSeriesforCRPF Supported by: Israel Consulate, CSR & Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham WISE 2.0 - Women in Sustaining the Environment in India and Tanzania Women Empowerment: Sanitation I & II - pan-India sanitation project Supported by MA Math & Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amrita PMKVY - training India’s rural youth Supported by MSDE, NSDC & Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Supported by: NABARD & Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham WADI - Sustainable Development projects for tribal belts in Odisha Supported by: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham & CSR SMART Socio-economicSelf-Help-Groupsempowerment COMPLETED PROJECTS CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH Smt. Bhag Jogan Debi, Champion of Change from Hadiabad Village, Bihar shares her words of gratitude at the International Colloquium for Women’s Empowerment organized by the center, 2018. “We are thankful for the knowledge shared, the support given and the trust bestowed upon us. In our language, when thoughts are pure, actions automatically become good—and when your actions are
The Center participates in knowledge dissemination various levels - having conducted several conferences and workshops, and contributed widely to the women’s empowerment body of knowledge
Transforming MENtalities: gender equality and masculinities in India, a UNESCO publication Supported by UNESCO & Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Commission on the Status of Women - UN Women Chairholder Dr. Bhavani Rao with members of the UNDEF special event for the CSW62: Empowerment Through Democracy, Civil Society and Innovation.
Global Summit for Gender-Related UNESCO Chairs (W36)
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AWESOME
Supported by: UNESCO & Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
InternationalConferenceConference International Colloquium
Women’s Empowerment through Community Sanitation and Democratic Participation
International Conference on Advancing Women’s Empowerment through Systems Model Expansion (AWESOME).
The Global Summit for Gender-Related Chairs and Networks (W36)brought together UNESCO Chairs from around the world, August 19-20, 2021.
KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION
A Braided River: The Universe of Indian Women in Science; a UNESCO publication
International delegates along with women “Champions of Change” convened at Amrita for three day international women’s conference, December 18-20, 2018.
G d Eq y and Women s Empo e men Am a V shwa V dyapee ham Ke ala nd a U d N ti Educationa Sc en fic and Cul u a Organization AWESOME Research Ecosystem Women's Empowerment Body of CertificationKnowledge Standards and Indicators Cloud-Based Technology Solution Community Resource Centers Tools for Community Certification AWESOME Research Roadmap AWESOME Areas of Research Program design implementation & Computationalevaluation Social Sciences GIS Applications in Social & Community Development Gender and Empowerment Studies Sustainable Development Studies ACADEMICS AT A GLANCE Undergraduate 5 Year Integrated BSW & MSW Graduate Master of Social Work (MSW) Doctoral Ph. D. in Cognitive Sciences & Technology Doctoral Program Highlights: 12 PhD students under the E4Life program Post Doctoral research avenues Multidimensional research Innovative research solutions International project collaborations India’s only UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (India)
Established in 2016, the UNESCO Chair furthers goals of the Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality and promotes international, inter-university cooperation and networking to enhance institutional capacities and collaborative work.
-Ruchira Kamboj
UNESCO Ch
Systems Model Expansion (AWESOME 2050)
The AWESOME Framework is a uniquely modeled framework that evolved out of years of field experience and extensive research into the empowerment process.
Advancing Women’s Empowerment through
Amrita offers integrated academic programs preparing our students to become tomorrow’s changemakers.
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO
“This is certainly the first-ever UNESCO chair in this discipline. My thanks to Amrita for the inspired idea and for the beautiful project. I am confident that through this chair, which is Amma’s and UNESCO’s gift, Amrita will make sure that both the ceiling and the floor for women will be raised.”
KNOWLEDGE CREATION
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“Like the two wings of a bird, women and men are of equal value. For without the two in perfect balance, humanity cannotAmmaprogress.”addressing the United Nations Geneva 2002 Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham CWEGE AT A GLANCE VISION AMRITA RANKEDUNIVERSITY8THINWORLDGENDEREQUALITY 2021 16 PhD Scholars E4 Life 3 ProgramsAcademic Bachelor, Master, PhD 50+ Publications 60+ ConferencesWorkshops,Seminars, 4 Awards 1300+ AdvocacyCommunity-ledEvents 64 Village Partnerships in 21 Indian states 6000+ trainedStudents 200,00+ Women members of Self-Help-GroupAmritaSREENetwork unesco.chair@ammachilabs.orgamrita.edu/cwege Center for Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri, Clappana P. O. Kollam - 690 525, Kerala, India
