Amrit Mahotsav Shri Shakti Challenge 2021

Amrit Mahotsav Shri Shakti Challenge 2021

About Amrit Mahotsav Shri Shakti Challenge 2021

On the occasion of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, the 75th year of Independence of India, MyGov under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India and UN Women have come together to jointly launch the Amrit Mahotsav Shri Shakti Innovation Challenge 2021 to encourage technology solutions developed by Women Entrepreneurs that facilitate Women’s Safety and Empowerment. The aim is Nari Sashaktikaran, that is to empower women to help them achieve their full potential.

MyGov is the citizen-centric platform of the Government of India that empowers people to connect with the Government and contribute towards good governance. It is a unique path-breaking initiative which was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi jiin 2014. MyGov brings the Government closer to the common citizen by using online platforms, thereby creating an interface for healthy exchange of ideas and views with the ultimate goal of contributing to the socio-economic transformation of India. MyGov is a key part of the policy and decision-making process in India, and the platform has been able to provide citizens a voice in the governance process and help them become stakeholders not only in policy formulation and recommendation but also implementation through actionable tasks. Some major attributes include Discussion, Tasks, Talks, Polls and Blogs based on diverse public policy issues.

UN Women, as the UN agency with the mandate to work on gender equality, is responsible for leading and coordinating United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world and at the country level.UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

Government of India under the visionary leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister is committed to empowering women, and has taken various transformative steps in this direction. These include the MUDRA scheme for giving interest free loans to the poor, Ujjwala scheme whereby women were given free gas connections to free them from the drudgery of smoke-filled cooking, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao to educate the girl child, as well as abolition of triple talaq to give dignity to women.

The Government has also taken various steps to tackle Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in its different forms including domestic violence, intimate partner violence, violence against children, sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and at different sites- private, public, work and online. The UN Secretary General has also made an appeal to the leaders of the Members States to put ‘Women and Girls Safety first’, and centre-stage gender responsive measures in their plans to address the challenge of COVID-19, to build back better and equal world. India was among 140 countries to endorse the call.

In this context, UN Women, along with three sister UN agencies – UNICEF, WHO and UNHCR, initiated a joint Programme under the Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) to prevent and respond to SGBV by scaling up and strengthening the ongoing interventions, given the impact of COVID-19. The Programme has been envisioned to empower and enhance the protection of women and girls from SGBV.

Last Date for Registration : 17th September, 2021

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