Gender Resource Centre (GRC)
The Gender Resource Centre (GRC) of Kalliasseri Grama Panchayat is a Panchayat-level committee functioning to ensure the safety and protection of women and children, provide necessary legal support, promote social empowerment, facilitate vocational training, and support mental health and well-being.
Major Functions of the Gender Resource Centre:
- Prepare the Panchayat’s Women Component Plan (WCP) on a sound and rational basis and ensure its effective implementation.
- Organize necessary activities and undertake appropriate interventions to improve the social status of women in the locality.
- Understand the status and situation of transgender and intersex persons residing within the jurisdiction of the local self-government institution and undertake activities and interventions to improve their well-being and social status.
- Undertake interventions to make local self-government institutions and their constituent institutions gender-friendly.
- Conduct studies on gender status and the status of women.
- Provide support for training, awareness programmes, counselling, and other activities required for the effective functioning of the Jagratha Samiti.
- Provide expertise, support, coordination, training, and other necessary assistance for all gender-related activities undertaken within the jurisdiction of the local self-government institution.
- Prepare and publish a Gender Equality Performance Report every year.
