In recent years, the Government of India has implemented and upgraded several schemes with the objective of empowering women, socially and economically, and ensuring last-mile delivery of services and entitlements.
The SANKALP (Supportive Action for Nurturing and Knowledge-Based Advancement, Last-Mile Delivery and Potential Realisation of Women): HEW (Hub for Empowerment of Women) is one such initiative, under the ambit of Mission Shakti, that will serve as a vehicle to bridge the information and knowledge gap regarding schemes and facilities available for women as well as guide them to avail the benefits and entitlements. The SANKALP: HEW will also serve as a Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) for all components under Mission Shakti and will work in convergence with the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme.
Inter-sectoral convergence is planned with a wide range of stakeholders and the SANKALP: HEW will act as a medium to implement initiatives in close coordination with different ministries and departments. This will ensure that awareness campaigns at grassroots level, which fuels demand by women as rightful entitlement holders for delivery of services under different schemes/programs meant for them can be organized.
The SANKALP: HEW is functional at the National, State and District level.
Hub for Empowerment is a component under the Samarthya Sub Scheme of Mission Shakti.
The Hub for Empowerment of Women, a dedicated PMU and will serve as a single window system for guiding, linking and hand-holding women to various institutional and schematic set ups for their empowerment and development, as well as monitoring of schemes related to Mission Shakti. It will create awareness among women regarding different schemes, policies, legislations and acts implemented with the purpose of ensuring safety, security and empowerment of women.
The Hubs for Empowerment
oversee scheme implementation of Mission Shakti, facilitate information
dissemination through awareness generation campaigns on several schemes,
legislations and acts, conduct capacity building, ensure data entry of the
different sub-schemes of Mission Shakti and converge with different
ministries/departments to address women's issues effectively.
The activities conducted include organizing awareness campaigns, conferences, and seminars to empower and educate women. A month-wise indicative calendar of activities to be conducted under SANKALP:HEW has been issued.
The SANKALP:HEW will facilitate to bridge the information and knowledge gap regarding schemes and facilities available for women through awareness campaigns, capacity building, conducting seminars and workshops, convergence with different ministries/departments and stakeholders, thereby empowering and securing women within their communities.
The Hub monitors schemes across departments, conducts regular evaluations, highlights challenges at the district level, organizes women camps, disseminates information at the grassroots, and ensures initiatives like BBBP reach the last mile through awareness campaigns and local outreach activities.
Yes. There is a provision of sufficient fund for training at the State Level.
Yes, there is provision of vehicles to facilitate better outreach initiatives and to reach the last-mile beneficiary.
Funds are allocated based on the guidelines of Samarthya sub-scheme of Mission Shakti, given to States/UTs and districts, to support outreach activities, capacity building.
The hub office at the district level may preferably be located in the DM/DC’s office for close coordination and smooth functioning.
The SANKALP:HEW facility is open to all women, irrespective of their age.
Information on different types of government scheme (central and state) of Women and Child Development as well as schemed of other Ministries/Departments, Legislations, Acts etc. will be provided through SANKALP:HEW.
| Name | Landline | |
|---|---|---|
| Shri Bhaskar, Director | bhaskar[dot]irts[at]gov[dot]in | 011-23741248 |
