Empowering Women: Inclusion in India's Government Planning

This video was prepared by Travelling Tripod in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute to inspire rural women in Odisha State, India to publicly share with leaders their ideas for assets that might be constructed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGA) program. The MGNREGA Act envisions a participatory, bottom-up process of choosing which asset will be built by allowing MGNREGA job card holders to recommend assets that would be useful to them at community meetings. Increasing women’s participation in the program is an important development goal for IFPRI and their partners in Odisha. Preparation of this video was made possible by the CGIAR research initiatives on Gender Equality and National Policies and Strategies. We would like to thank all funders who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund: https://www.cgiar.org/funders/