Poverty / MDGs
Poverty / MDGs
March 6, 2012
There are 240,000 elected Panchayat Institutions in the country, comprising 2.8 million representatives Of these elected representatives, 1.03 million are women The Indian Parliament enacted the Right to Information Act in 2005 giving citizens of India the right to demand disclosure of public records The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP), guaranteeing 100 days of mandated employment per year to every rural household, is implemented in all 604 districts of India Legal Services Authority Act provides legal services to vulnerable groups in all states Sources: State of Panchayat Report, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, November 2006; National Resource Centre for Women, www.nrcw.nic.in Right to Information website, www.rti.org.in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act website, www.nrega.nic.in
- Programme Brief
- Urban Governance
- Rural Decentralisation
- Capacity Building of Elected Women Representatives and Functionaries of PRIs
- Support to Operationalization of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act [NREGA]
- ICT for Development
- Capacity Building for Access to Information
- Capacity Development for District Planning and Livelihood Promotion
- Enhancing the Role of Women in Strengthening Democracy
- Enhancing women's roles & participation in local governance by making governance gender responsive