There is an increasing understanding around the world that reaching a status of gender equality will require both women’s empowerment and involvement of men. The Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) and SAHAYOG have collaborated on a study to understand the spaces and provisions for including and addressing men within a gendered policy framework in India. For this purpose, a set of five recent policy instruments were reviewed that include:

• National Population Policy ( 2000) ( and RCH II)
• National Policy for Empowerment of Women, 2001
• National Youth Policy, 2003
• National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
• The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

To share the preliminary findings of the study and to take feedback from stake- holders and experts on the relevance of the process a sharing event was organized on 17th March 2008 at India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. Please click the links given below for programme schedule, presentations and brief report.

Programme Schedule	downloads: 55 | type: doc | size: 36 kB
List of participants	downloads: 55 | type: doc | size: 55 kB

Context of the study	downloads: 52 | type: ppt | size: 64 kB
Policy Scan	downloads: 49 | type: ppt | size: 66 kB
Reactions and Responses	downloads: 53 | type: ppt | size: 35 kB