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Suggested Research Topics For Studies To Be Sponsored by Ministry of WCD

This document lists 62 potential research topics related to child and women's issues for studies sponsored by India's Ministry of Women and Child Development. The topics focus on assessing programs under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the impact of convergence between ICDS and other departments, early childhood education, community participation in ICDS, health and nutrition education, child protection, trafficking, domestic violence, gender disparities, and evaluating various government schemes. The broad areas of research include studies on ICDS functionaries, child nutrition and development, women's empowerment, trafficking, gender bias, and analyzing the effectiveness of government interventions.

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Suggested Research Topics For Studies To Be Sponsored by Ministry of WCD

This document lists 62 potential research topics related to child and women's issues for studies sponsored by India's Ministry of Women and Child Development. The topics focus on assessing programs under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the impact of convergence between ICDS and other departments, early childhood education, community participation in ICDS, health and nutrition education, child protection, trafficking, domestic violence, gender disparities, and evaluating various government schemes. The broad areas of research include studies on ICDS functionaries, child nutrition and development, women's empowerment, trafficking, gender bias, and analyzing the effectiveness of government interventions.

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Suggested Research Topics for studies to be sponsored by Ministry of WCD.

(a) Child Related Issues:


1. Time- use study of ICDS functionaries including DPO/CDPOs, Supervisors, AWW to
assess their engagement in non-ICDS activities (per day/month/qtr).
2. Impact of effective convergence of ICDS with Health, Sanitation & Drinking waterGaps & Deficiencies at the Block and Village level.
3. ECE Impact of preschool education in ICDS on enrolment of children in school vis-vis the children not availing PSE at district level.
4. Key areas of community participation and barriers for active engagement of the
community in ICDS activities at the village level.
5. Efficacy of Health & Nutrition Education and Village Health and Nutrition Day impact
on awareness levels and behavioural change in the community. Roles of
AWWs/ANMs and ASHA.
6. Assessing the quality of different services delivered to pregnant women and children
below the age of two years under ICDS programme.
7. Survey and assessment of
Health survey.

nutritional status in districts not covered under Annual

8. Study of Delhi or other metropolitan city as a Safe City for Children, to identify
weak and strong points and help address gaps;
9. Efficacy of supplementary food nutrition distribution through SHGs/Mahila Mandals.
10. Documenting best practices of Government and non-Government organizations on
survival and protection of children, also on development and participation of children
for learning and wider dissemination.
11. Data on children in need of protection.
12. Study on understanding of parents and households for Early Childhood Development.
13. Collection/ compilation of Data on children affected by civic strife.
14. Data on children living in metropolitan slums.
15. Reasons for children coming into conflict with law and their rehabilitation.
16. Use of Children in crime.
17. Reasons for children running away from home and what happens thereafter.

18. Increase in trafficking of the girl child: causes, types of intervention and rehabilitation
which could be undertaken and implementation through NGOs, including sensitization
of police and functionaries.
19. Mapping of source and destination areas of trafficking of children for commercial
sexual purposes and tracking / mapping of the change in these patterns and reasons
thereof.
20. Study on family participation in child protection procedures.
21. Study on Institutional Services for children under Child Protection Measures.
22. Need Assessment for Creche facilities.
23. Rehabilitation and restoration of a juvenile in conflict with law.
24. Study on street children and rag pickers.
25.
Study of children in difficult circumstances especially children of Devdasis,
trafficked children, children in conflict zones and Adivasi children.
26. Study on child labour in view of existing data gaps.
(b) Women Related Issues:

27. Research study on female foeticide /infanticide.


28. Study of communities that are traditionally into trafficking and means to wean them
away; assessment of whether their vulnerability has been increasing over time, reasons
thereof.
29. Study of migrant women, their economic status, and their vulnerability to trafficking,
social security recommendations.
30. Study of seasonality in trafficking and efficacy of programs like NREGA
Ujjawala in curbing trafficking.

and

31. Rehabilitation status / condition of women sex workers after they have ceased to be
active (after 35 years age).
32. Prosecution of women as witches, reasons thereof and manner in which States are
dealing with it.
33. Impact of Domestic Violence Act and efficacy of implementation of DVA.

34. Problems of women in areas of civil unrest.


35. Documentation of best practices in combating trafficking for commercial sexual
exploitation.
36. Impact study of STEP Scheme: Increase in income of the beneficiary; how the project
has been sustained after the Organization has completed the project; profile of the
beneficiaries and the bottlenecks.
37. Impact study of WWH Scheme: Women staying in the hostel and the problems faced
by them and the initiatives taken.
38. Survey related to Swadhar Scheme to obtain data about the number of destitute women
in the country with specific details about their age profile and problems associated with
them and kind of economic activities they prefer to do so that they can be rehabilitated
properly.
39. Women and migration, with a special focus on domestic workers, including their work
conditions and terms of engagement.
40. Women with disabilities with a special focus on adolescent girls.
41. Women, work and the unorganized sector.
42. 'Surrogate Motherhood - Ethical or Commercial'.

( c.) General
43. Study on violence against Women and Children.
44. Study on the process of establishing a unified policy for responsible tourism for
protection of women and children from exploitation in NE States.
45. Study on trafficking of women and children to the metro cities of India and abroad
from the North East Region.
46. Study on impact of militancy on women and children and preparation of action plan for
their rehabilitation.
47. Dynamics behind sex ratio.
48. Study on effectiveness of government measures/central and state interventions, taken
to combat sex selective abortion.
49. Impact of sex selective abortion on changing cultural and social mores in states such as
Haryana and Punjab, over the past 3-5 years.
50. Study of successful interventions to identify strategies for changing traditional
mindsets and practices regarding gender disparity and discrimination against the girl
child.

51. Domestic Violence- A study on ongoing projects in Maharashtra and Haryana for
documenting best practices.
52. Quick documentation of media initiatives in learning.
53. Video Research Documentation on children media.
54. Documentation of best practices under the media literacy framework on development
and participation of children for learning and wider dissemination.
55. Impact of media on overall health of children.
56. Traditional practices and language which underscores and re-emphasise secondary
status for women.
57. Study on convergence of schemes.
58. Impact on children of civil strife/ in naxal affected areas.
59. Study the implementation of MGNREGS to understand the status of employment of
women under the programme, pattern of utilization of increased income by women and
impact of the programme in improving the status of women in securing their rights and
entitlements.
60. Study the effectiveness of basic services - education, health, nutrition and work - in
enabling the women belonging to SC/ST communities to meet their rights and
entitlements.
61. Study on various policies offered by States on promoting Girl-Child and how these
have impacted female foeticide.
62. Gender Budgeting- An Audit of ongoing efforts in the government.

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