Division of Women Empowerment and Safety

SPNIWCD is committed to advancing gender equality and empowering women and girls which was materialised in 1986 by setting up Women’s Development Division in the Institution. Its activities were geared to complement national policies and programmes for women’s empowerment through Training Programmes /Seminars / Workshops ; Research/evaluation/surveys; Documentation; Clearing House; Management Services at policy making & at macro level and Advocacy etc.

The Women Development Division at SPNIWCD has been rechristened as the Women Safety and Empowerment Division, while its mandate and propose remain unchanged, which is to function as a policy arm MWCD to advocate Mission Shakti for ensuring the overall survival, development, protection, participation and empowerment of women.

Mission Shakti’ is a scheme in mission mode aimed at strengthening interventions for women safety, security and empowerment. It seeks to realise the Government‟s commitment for „women-led development‟ by addressing issues affecting women on a life-cycle continuum basis and by making them equal partners in nation-building through convergence and citizen-ownership. It seeks to focus on proposing strategies for improving convergence across Ministries/Departments and at different levels of governance. It also seeks to promote greater participation and support of Panchayats and other local level governance bodies, apart from strengthening digital infrastructure support, last mile tracking and Jan Sahabhagita. Mission Shakti has two sub-schemes -‘Sambal’and ‘Samarthya’.

The objective of the Mission Shakti is to provide to all women and girls including differently-abled, socially and economically marginalized and vulnerable groups, in need of care and protection, with short term and long-term services and information for their holistic development and empowerment. 

SPNIWCD remains committed to advocate Mission Shakti Scheme of MWCD by its concerted efforts through Capacity Building, Research and Documentation.