Gender, Policy, and Development: Frameworks, Measurement, and Praxis

Details of the #WebPolicyLearning:

Dates: Feb (15, 20) & March (1, 8), 2027
Four Consecutive Mondays
Time: 4 – 6 p.m. IST
Platform: Zoom 

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/t4pQBvoULubosj8R6

Course Fee in INR (inclusive of GST): Professionals: INR 3999 | Students: INR 2999

Special 20 percent discount for IMPRI Alumni. Bulk Discounts can be availed for groups of more than 5 participants. IMPRI Alumni can avail benefits through the IMPRI Referral Policy for Alumni & Friends.

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Public policy interventions require rigorous gender lenses that go beyond symbolic inclusion. This eight-session online certificate training course, convened by IMPRI’s Gender Impact Studies Centre, equips participants with theoretical tools, empirical measurement frameworks and sector-specific policy analysis to assess and design gender-transformative public programmes.

The course bridges macroeconomic metrics, institutional law, intersectional sociology and practical policy evaluation in India and the Global South. It begins with analytical frameworks and the data systems used to measure gender gaps, then moves through gender responsive budgeting and public finance, labour markets and care work, land, assets and urban spaces, health, nutrition and social protection, and law, governance and political representation. It closes with contemporary issues, emerging challenges and the way forward, including climate, digital and platform economies, queer and trans inclusion, and strategic roadmaps linked to Beijing+30 and SDG 5.

Open to researchers, practitioners, students, civil servants and policy analysts, the programme aims to move from frameworks to evidence, and from evidence to a policy brief or Gender Impact Assessment on a live government scheme.

Key Themes & Focus Areas

• Gender Analysis Frameworks: Gender versus sex in state policy, the shift from Women in Development to Gender and Development, rights-based versus efficiency approaches, and institutional patriarchy.
• Measuring Gender: Data systems and their gaps, including PLFS, NFHS and the Census, unpaid work through Time Use Surveys, and composite indices such as GDI, GII and the Global Gender Gap Index.
• Gender Responsive Budgeting: The evolution of GRB in India, Statement 13 (Part A and Part B), gender audits, and tracking state and municipal spending.
• Labour, Care and Economic Participation: The debate on female labour force participation, informalisation and domestic work, care infrastructure, and social security architectures such as MGNREGA.
• Land, Assets and Urban Spaces: Women’s land rights and tenancy, urban safety and mobility, gendered transit subsidies, and housing title ownership.
• Health, Nutrition and Social Protection: Life-cycle healthcare, maternal health and cash transfers, adolescent nutrition and POSHAN Abhiyaan, mental health and reproductive autonomy.
• Law, Governance and Representation: Constitutional safeguards, the 73rd and 74th Amendments, the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, and POSH compliance.
• Contemporary Issues and the Way Forward: Climate and just transition, the digital divide and platform economy, technology-facilitated violence, queer and trans inclusion, intersectional marginalities, and strategic roadmaps.

This course is structured for early- to mid-career researchers, civil servants, policy analysts, development practitioners, NGO and civil society professionals, academicians, and undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral scholars. International participants and corporate analysts working on gender and diversity are also welcome.

Participants would:

• Learn from nationally and internationally renowned economists and practitioners
• Gain first-hand insights and networking opportunities
• Get the course outline and a curated pre-session reading kit of policy briefs, working papers and data snippets
• Get access to session videos for 15 days
• Receive a certificate of completion
• Have the opportunity to publish their course reflection article on the IMPRI Insights Blog, which features articles of eminent people from around the globe

Upon successful completion of the program, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

Chair:

Experts:

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Convener:
Dr Simi Mehta, CEO & Editorial Director, IMPRI
Dr Arjun Kumar, Director, IMPRI, New Delhi

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