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Net Working Partners
All India Women’s Education Fund Association emerged as a
special organization to assist the All India Women’s Conference
(AIWC) in the promotion of education of women and girls in 1929.
AIWEFA later established the Lady Irwin College Society in 1970
when the College had to be affiliated to the Delhi University, and
it had to be a separate entity. The evolution of AIWEFA has been
continuing as a string of associations with different bodies and
weaving a network with various NGOs, United Nations Systems, Governments
in the Centre and the State, Corporate bodies, Other National and
International Organisations. With the formation of UN-IRENE by the
NGO Branch of UN DESA, AIWEFA became the National Coordinator of
UN IRENE in India in 2003 and continues in that position.
The Networking has helped in
the conduct of various Conferences and Workshops on topical social
and economic issues, lobbying for legislation, policies, implementation
of programmes and getting any urgent issue resolved e.g. National
Policy : 50/50 Gender Balance National Forum for Women’s Rights,
Gender Training Institute, YWCA, Federation of India Women Entrepreneurs,
National Network for Violence against Women. The major networking
partners of AIWEFA are Lady Irwin College, AIWC, Women’s Coalition,
India Alliance for Child Rights (IACR), The National Spiritual Assembly
of the Bahais of India, Lawyers’ Collective, Schumacher Centre,
Asian Centre for Research and Development, Centre for Women’s
Development Studies, Centre for Social Research, Women’s Watch,
Joint Women’s Programme (JWP), National Association of Women’s
Organisations (NAWO), Guild of Services, Women’s Power Connect,
Sulabh International and several others.
AIWEFA believes in networking
and collaborating with other organisations for social, economic
and political empowerment of people.
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