Completed Projects

"Women and Creativity" - the first in a series of projects planned by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts - an archival collection of embroideries and artifacts of the Rabaris of Kutch, with documentation, photographs and a monograph. The collection was exhibited in New Delhi in March 1995 at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

Women and Panchayati Raj. A research project in collaboration with the All India Women Education Fund Association and the Lady Irwin College, studied the participation of women panchayat leaders in five Hindi speaking States.
Health and Physical Fitness of adolescent girls. ERC completed a study sponsored by the Delhi State Commission of Women on adolescent girls in thirty schools run by the Delhi Municipal Corporation.

Strengthening Rural Colleges. A preliminary investigation in rural colleges in three States in India to look at ways in which the curriculum could be strengthened and made more relevant for rural youth through linking the colleges with employment opportunities in the area.

Ongoing Projects

Campus Diversity Initiative: A project funded by Ford Foundation supports programmes that addresses the issues of diversity on 23 undergraduate college campuses in twelve States in India. ERC has the administrative role in the project, monitoring and evaluating the programmes in the participating colleges, and arranging student and faculty development programmes. After three years the Campus Diversity Initiative was extended in its second phase to include 50 more colleges and five universities in India.

Women in the political process
In partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a German non-profit Foundation, ERC is conducting a series of workshops for undergraduate students on Women in the Political Process. FES is working in India on the overall objective of the gender approach to improve the general socio-political conditions, with the aim to enable women and men to participate equally in all aspects of development. With this aim the workshops seek to encourage women to participate in political decision making and increase an awareness among youth on political issues.  The workshops include undergraduates students, women and men, to engage in interaction with  women from different political parties and engage in discussions on current issues.