CBPS organised a workshop titled “MS and CBPS Reflective Workshop” which was held at the Executive Development Centre, Institute of Hotel Management in Bangalore on the 3rd and 4th of November, 2016. The workshop was the first workshop in which the team members of both Mahila Samakhya (Haveri) and CBPS came together to discuss the ongoing research project on women’s empowerment, titled “Assessing the Impact of Women’s Action Groups on Social Change in India”.
The focus of the workshop was to review the work being done in the field, discuss the different roles played by CBPS and MS (Haveri), consolidate approach to the field and finalise strategies to trouble-shoot any potential problems in the field. The Principal Secretary, Women & Child Development, Government of Karnataka, Ms. Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta, also visited the workshop to talk to both the team members about her vision for women’s empowerment in Karnataka.