Vasantidevi Patil Institute of Pharmacy
VASANTIDEVI PATIL
INSTITUTE OF PHARMACY
Gender Sensitization
About
The Gender Sensitization Cell was formed in accordance with the guidelines on sexual harassment prevention in the workplace, issued by the Honorable Supreme Court of India in 1997 and in accordance with the VISHAKHA guidelines of Supreme Court and endorsed in SAKSHAM report of the University Grants Commission.
Reference Act
F. No. 1-101/PGRC/AICTE/Regulation/2019- In exercise of the power conferred under clause (1) of Section 23 of the All India Council for Technical Education, Act, 1987 (52 of 1987), and in supersession of the All India Council for Technical Education (Establishment of Mechanism for Grievance Redressal) Regulation 2012, the All India Council for Technical Education makes the following Regulations, Approval Process Handbook 2018-19, and as per the rules and regulations addressed by the UGC for student in higher education.
Vision
To be the premier Gender Sensitization Cell in Vasantidevi Patil Institute of Pharmacy, Kodoli for information, dissemination, and training functions that successfully influence gender and development efforts towards gender equality and the empowerment of all staff members and students. Gender sensitization may be seen as the awareness informed propensity to behave in a manner which is sensitive to gender justice and gender equality issues.
Mission
The Gender Sensitization Cell approach focuses on the socially constructed differences between men and women and the need to challenge existing Gender roles and relations.
Objective
- Integrity: Demonstrates consistently the general accepted values and norms of professional and ethical behavior with a gender and development lens towards gender equality and the empowerment of all women, girls, and other gender groups.
- Excellence: Provides timely, accurate, and relevant public service to attain the highest level of client satisfaction with a gender and development lens towards gender equality and the empowerment of all women, girls, and other gender groups.
- Commitment: Demonstrates passionate drive to deliver quality results whose accountability and transparency equips a gender and development lens towards gender equality and the empowerment of all women, girls, and other gender groups.
- Innovation: Adds value by pursuing continuous improvement of products and services characterized by gender and development mainstreaming efforts towards gender equality and the empowerment of all women, girls, and other gender groups.
- Collaboration: Engages competent people to achieve a common objective under the combined action of gender and development mechanisms towards gender equality and the empowerment of all women, girls, and other gender groups.
“Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world”
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender. At VPIP Gender Sensitization committee work efficiently and effectively towards balancing the parameter of equality between men and women. Information materials as in posters, handouts and eye lying pictorials are showcased in campus. Organize awareness program on various gender issues, laws, government schemes, theme-based plays, poster and collage, debate, essay competitions, annual functions on gender equality. The Committee aims tosensitize and create awareness about gender justice among the academic and non-academic community in this educational institution.
Functions
- Facilitate development, formulation, review, interpreting, implementation and monitoring of gender related policies, programmes and plans.
- Facilitate drafting of gender related policies and legislation in college. Identify emerging gender issues for implementation across all departments in college.
- Development and maintenance of gender disaggregated data and management information systems. Designing and facilitating programmes and projects geared towards gender equality and women empowerment.
- Undertaking research including baseline surveys on gender and other emerging issues by conducting appraisal on policies, programmes and practices across sectors to establish the level of gender responsiveness.
- Undertake policy and program analysis on gender parameters, make recommendations for review or termination and report appropriately.
- Establishment and implementation of a gender management system; Disseminating information on treaties, protocols and conventions.
- Monitoring and validating impact of gender programmes and projects; Liaise with research institutions to identify data gaps and carry out gender related research and negotiations, domestication and reporting on gender related international and regional treaties, protocols and conventions.
- Gender sensitization presides over gender sensitivity, the modification of behavior by raising awareness of gender equality concerns.
Roles
- The Gender Sensitization Cell shall be responsible for framing a Policy from time to time and its implementation with regard to gender sensitization.
- The organization of programmes for the gender sensitization of the college through by conducting workshops, seminars, posters, film shows, debates, displays, etc.
- Submission of an Annual Report by end of every year to the principal which shall be made public outlining the activities undertaken by it and charting out a blueprint for the activities/steps to be taken up in the following year along with necessary budget allowances required by it.
- The GSC shall include in its Annual Report the number of cases filed, if any, and their disposal under these Regulations in the annual report.
- The enlisting of the help of NGO's, association, volunteers, lawyers, lawyer's bodies, or the concerned legal services authorities to carry out these programmes.
- The enlisting and activating of an adequately representative team of volunteers and ensuring the widespread publicity of the contact details (both official and personal) of all its members and volunteers. The services of such volunteers shall be available at all times to any aggrieved woman or any person in need of consultation or guidance. Volunteers will also assist in the gender sensitization, crisis mediation and crisis management duties of GSC.
- Organizing and training members and volunteers to equip them to handle sexual harassment cases including legal and medical aspects of aid. Gender sensitization presides over [clarification needed] gender sensitivity, the modification of behavior by raising awareness of gender equality concerns.
- This can be achieved by conducting various sensitization campaigns, training centres, workshop, programs etc. Sensitization in the domain of Humanities and Social Sciences is seen as awareness informed propensity or disposition which aims at changing behavior so that it is sensitive to certain issues.
- Gender sensitization theories claim that modification of the behavior of teachers and parents (etc.) towards children which can have a causal effect on gender equality.
- Displayed Charts, books and posters time to time received from Swayam NGO to foster students’ participation and awareness in prevention of gender biasness.