In an advisory, issued on Wednesday, the labour ministry has suggested employers to take proactive initiatives to encourage women to participate in the workforce predominantly while ensuring a balance between employment and care responsibilities, adequate representation of women in management positions, supporting women entrepreneurs and eliminating gender bias in recruitment, promotion and performance review.
The President said, “Our IITs have a reputation all over the world. IITs are considered incubation centres of talent and technology.” The President said that “the institutions like IIT-Kharagpur will have to play an important role in making the 21st century- India s century through innovation and technology. They will have to make revolutionary efforts to develop technology and implement it.”.
In small-scale fisheries management, the significance of participation is widely recognised but we are still learning how this can be better operationalised to include different groups, such as women or Indigenous peoples. Participatory monitoring is one tool which has been used to increase participation in fisheries management. The aim of this review is to use critical interpretive synthesis to examine the literature on participatory monitoring within community-based fisheries management from a gender perspective. The synthesis identified and discussed several key areas: reasons presented in the literature for engaging with the themes of gender or participatory monitoring, gendered aspects of participatory monitoring, knowledge valuation and prioritisation in management, replicability and transparency of programme or research methods, and marginalisation narratives. Our findings show the complexities of conducting gender-aware participatory monitoring. Participatory monitoring has the