Kohima, July 20 (MExN): The State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW), Kohima in collaboration with North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC), Guwahati, Childline Nagaland and HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, New Delhi is organizing an interface programme and release of ‘Handbook on Budget for Children’ on July 22 at the Secretariat Conference Hall.
SRCW, Mission Director P. Daisy Mezhur informed in a press release that SRCW is the implementing agency of the National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) which provides institutional support to implement the activities of the mission in the state and is functioning under the aegis of the Nagaland State Social Welfare Board.
NESRC is a research organisation that has been undertaking social research in states of the North East on a wide range of issues since 2000. Its mandate is to combine serious research with involvement with groups and organizations working for social transformation in North East India.
HAQ: Centre for Child Rights works on recognition and promotion of child rights. Over the last 15 years HAQ has been working on a range of children’s issues through research, documentation and training and capacity building on child rights issues. It has been undertaking budget for children since 2000.
From 2006, HAQ and NESRC have done analysis of Assam State Budget from the point of view of children (Budget for Children or BFC). Since 2013, the study has been extended to include three more states of Northeast India - Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura.
“The first analysis of the Nagaland BFC is ready for dissemination which we will be released on the said date,” SRCW, Mission Director added in the release.
