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Feminist Policy Collective (FPC or Collective in short) is a group committed to transforming the policy and financing agenda to achieve women's rights and gender equality. Within the larger group, constituting smaller interest-based Working Groups can be an ideal modality for closer engagement of all members. Through the Working Groups, all members of this Collective would collaborate in creating knowledge for informing policy formulation, implementation and monitoring, centering women's voices from the ground, and collectively undertake the necessary dissemination and advocacy to carry forward key policy recommendations with the State.

Terms of Reference

a. Membership of WGs

1. It is expected that every institutional and individual Member of the FPC will actively contribute to the work of the Collective by joining at least one WG. This implies pro-active engagement, committing to group calls for discussions every 2-3 weeks, in order to analyse and respond to the current situation.
2. Joining a WG is based upon personal choice and thematic interest. A member can express preference for one or two WGs.
3. If any Member organization is represented by two staff members, it is preferred they should join different WGs. Nonetheless, if their organizational focus happens to be on one particular thematic area, they can both be on the same WG.
4. If any WG has a very large number of interested Members, they can internally decide to create smaller sub-groups
5. The anchoring of WGs will be done by the four Co-Convenors to start with (May 2020). This may be reviewed within 6-12 months so that other WG members can take leadership roles.
6. Being an Anchor would entail being able to give time and commitment to facilitating collaborative work, towards developing the WG's Action Plan and seeing it through for at least the next six months.

b. Expected Outputs of the WGs

The purpose of setting up WGs is to fulfil the vision of the FPC, through collaborations in creating knowledge for informing policy formulation, implementation and monitoring, centering women's voices from the ground, and collectively undertaking necessary dissemination and advocacy.

Policy and budget analysis using an intersectional feminist lens within the rights-based framework will be central across all groups, in addition, other cross cutting perspectives such as dealing with minorities and other marginalised groups. Therefore, the following outputs are expected from every WG, with reference to:

• the Union and state budgets/expenditure/revenues;
• on upcoming or recent government laws, policies, schemes/ programmes;
• on the Union government's commitments to CEDAW/BPFA/SDGs and other international commitments relevant to human rights and social justice
• Any immediate issues such as the current COVID-19 pandemic response

1. Research Products – Examine ground realities and diverse marginalized women's experiences; use these and data to bring out issue-based fact sheets; bring out (at least twice a year) periodic updates and analyses of the budgets and other policy/legal announcements, or related to government reporting on international platforms
2. Knowledge Sharing – Conduct Webinars or have experts speak on topical issues that will be of wider interest; produce timely opinion pieces/articles, policy briefs on the relevant topics;
3. Dissemination and Communications – Clear strategy with minimum number of Tweets and links to Blogs, Policy briefs, Factsheets, discussion papers (with set numbers and timelines).

c. Thematic descriptions of WGs

For the first round, a set of four Thematic Working groups has been formed as described below, although as required from time to time other WGs can be constituted to respond to urgent issues. The Members listed are as follows: