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Saajhi Samajh 12.0
Women on the Rise: Challenges, Opportunities, and Pathways
- 9th May, 2024, Thursday
- 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Meering ID: 859 6671 5548 | Passcode: 616095
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90 mins of topical discussion
Women on the Rise: Challenges, Opportunities, and Pathways
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Our Panelists
For this session, we have assembled a diverse panel of speakers comprising women leaders from various sectors including organisations focused on gender equality, academics, corporate leaders, and government officials.
Ms Shikha Sharma
Chief Guest
Independent Director, Mahindra & Mahindra
Former MD & CEO, Axis Bank
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Dr. Vanshree Singh
Director, Blood Bank and In-charge, St. John & First Aid Training
She is a doctor with post-graduation in Transfusion and Transplant Sciences from Bristol University. Working with the Indian Red Cross Society since 1997, she has advance training on Blood transfusion medicine (from ICMR), First Aid (from International Committee of Red Cross) and various accreditation certifications from the Ministry of Health, India. She has played an instrumental role in upgrading the IRCS NHQ Blood Bank (in 2010) and making it a ‘State-of-the-art model blood bank’ is known to be one of her achievements. Also, she has worked in collaboration with the NDMA for developing school-level First Aid protocols (prepared Modules & App of First Aid)
Ms Urvashi Prasad
Panelist
Director, Office of VC, NITI Aayog
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Dr Subroto Das
Co-founder, Lifeline Foundation
Padma Shri Awardee
He is the winner of one of India’s highest civilian awards, Padma Shri for his exemplary work on Highway Trauma Care. He co-founded Lifeline Foundation along with his wife, Sushmita (after surviving a life-threatening accident in August, 1999 on one of India’s busiest highways), with the aim of reducing the 1,50,000+ annual highway deaths in India. He is the only Indian to be honoured with the Asian EMS Lifetime Achievement Award by the Asian EMS Council in 2015, whereas The Times of India calls Dr Das ‘the country’s best known EMS expert’.
Ms Gayatri Das Sharma
Panelist
Co-Founder, Timshel Coaching and Consulting
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Dr. Vanshree Singh
Director, Blood Bank and In-charge, St. John & First Aid Training
She is a doctor with post-graduation in Transfusion and Transplant Sciences from Bristol University. Working with the Indian Red Cross Society since 1997, she has advance training on Blood transfusion medicine (from ICMR), First Aid (from International Committee of Red Cross) and various accreditation certifications from the Ministry of Health, India. She has played an instrumental role in upgrading the IRCS NHQ Blood Bank (in 2010) and making it a ‘State-of-the-art model blood bank’ is known to be one of her achievements. Also, she has worked in collaboration with the NDMA for developing school-level First Aid protocols (prepared Modules & App of First Aid)
Dr Meena Gopal
Panelist
Professor, TISS (On Lien Pondicherry University)
Mr Sajid Ali
Moderator
COO, Tech Mahindra Foundation
About Saajhi Samajh 12.0
Background
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders in 2015, embody a roadmap for progress that is sustainable and leaves no one behind. Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is integral to each of the 17 goals.
Empowering women in the economy and closing gaps in workforce participation, rights to economic resources and unpaid care responsibilities are central to achieving Sustainability Development Goal 5, as gender equality cuts across ten additional goals with gender-specific benchmarks which further reinforces the interconnection between women empowerment and progress.
“Women and the Economy” has also been identified as one of the twelve pillars for achieving gender equality in ‘The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.’ It emphasizes the need to address the structural barriers and discriminatory practices that hinder women’s full and equal participation in economic activities, and promoting policies and initiatives that foster women’s economic empowerment.
Tech Mahindra Foundation and its Work with Women
Tech Mahindra Foundation (TMF), the CSR arm of Tech Mahindra Limited is committed to spreading awareness on gender equality and empowerment and works on a mandate of ensuring at least 50% of its beneficiaries are women. Through SMART (Skills for Market Training), its flagship programme in Employability, the Foundation has trained over 84,000 women since 2012 and has progressively expanded to establish an all-women’s academy that plays a pivotal role in empowering women by facilitating career boosts and restarts, enabling them to actively contribute to family finances, and ultimately achieving economic independence.
About Saajhi Samajh 12.0
The twelfth edition of Saajhi Samajh – to be held on 9th May 2024 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm – will pivot the spotlight onto several critical topics necessary for fostering equitable and inclusive societies through the economic empowerment of women. The conference will convene collective reflection and action in the pursuit of gender equality, with a specific focus on economic empowerment, a call to dismantle barriers, challenge discriminatory norms, and forge a path that ensures women and girls are not only included but empowered at every level of economic engagement.
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