Best Practices in Public Administration and Governance

Women Empowerment

Department of Social Welfare, Delhi, India: the Stree Shakti Project. For promoting women empowerment and creating avenues for women to achieve better health, better opportunities, and legal knowledge to protect themselves from deprivation and exploitation.

Bulacan, Philippines. For its programs on cooperative development, better learning system, women empowerment, constituent responsive governance, reinventing public service delivery, livelihood and job creation, and prisoner rehabilitation.

Hebei Province, China: Direct Election of Delegates to Women's Associations. For empowering women by means of encouraging them to participate in government and political affairs.

Davao City, Philippines: Gender and Development Mainstreaming. For Davao City's efforts to empower women by means of mainstreaming gender and development in its various programs.