Key Issues - Women's Development, Children, Poverty

1. Water
2. Education
3. Health
4. Agriculture
5. Environment
6. Natural Resources
7. Micro Finance
8. Population
9. Disability
10. Housing
11. Emergency Relief
12. Human Rights
13. Displacement
14. Forest Land Rights and Tribals
15. Child Rights
16. Women Empowerment
17. Right To information
18. Right to food
19. Panchayati Raj
20. Peace
21. Animal Welfare
22. Labour Rights

Issues

1. Employment Generation: capacity Building, implementation, Monitoring, and asset building.
2. Sustainable Livelihoods – Institutional models and approaches to promote sustainable livelihoods for the poor and marginalized.
3. Entrepreneurship development – support through marketing and financial linkages, business and development services.
4. Skill development – Through vocational education and technical writing for unorganized sector and women.
5. Condition of work – improved work condition for unorganized workers and workplace policies for HIV
6. Social protection: provision of social security to unorganized sector workers.
7. Organizing workers in the unorganized sector.

Am sure…after looking at the above scattered points you all may wonder what’s this…but trust me that’s what I have been thinking as a first step to build a strategy towards our AIM…we essentially need to list out the issues that need attention or areas where we can invest our time and services which would eventually bring a change in the standard of living of society. After exploring a bit ...ideally there were lots of issues (listed above)… but according to me there were three primary subjects that intertwined and laid to various problems. POVERTY, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. If you look at it in a broader way, lack of women’s development lead to various problems like lack of awareness, lack of self development, poverty and eventually it impacts the society on the whole. For instance in a family which is below poverty line if the women of the household is educated (to an extent or instilled confidence), groomed she can contribute majorly towards the financial development of the household and can cater to the basic necessities of the family! This would further add on to better raised children who can further go to schools and get the primary education or develop a positive outlook towards an educated sect of the community. So the point is we can create awareness amongst the women or prefer to groom the children who serve to be the future of our nation.