Empowerment includes the action of raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. Women's empowerment is all about equipping and allowing women to make life-determining decisions through the different problems in society.

Keeping in view the above  ideology in mind , a three days training programme on “Women Empowerment” sponsored by Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India, has been organized by Himachal Pradesh Institute of Public Administration, Shimla From 21st to 23rd February, 2019 at fairlawn for Officers/Officials of different government departments of Himachal Pradesh. The main objective behind this programme was to strengthen and sensitize, especially women according to their professional requirements and encourage them to grow further in life. The other objectives of the programme was to develop understanding of gender related concepts and to acquaint the participants with the prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace. The contents of the programme included Gender  concept (What & Why Gender), Inequality: Needs, Issues and Concerns; Gender Profile of Himachal Pradesh;   How to Attain Social, Physical Logical and Economic Empowerment of Women; Role of SHGs in Development of Women; The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013.) Provisions & Issues; Constitutional Amendment Made for Women Empowerment; Importance and Role of Education in Women Empowerment; Various Programmes and Schemes Launched and Implemented by the Central and  State  Government to Support Women Empowerment; IT Tools in Women Empowerment & Digital Literacy  Mapping.

Over the three days, the participants from the various departments were exposed to and deliberated on concepts, issues and challenges of women empowerment.  Throughout the programme the participants showed a high degree of responsiveness to and engagement with the topics and faculty, exposing the need for such a platform to bring together different perspectives in governance and create a common ground for concrete action for going forward. Entry and exit level questionnaires were administered to the participants in order to gauge the level of learning in the three days. From these, it was clear that the participants understood the concepts, issues and the programme has brought the clarity in their doubts and made them think about their roles and responsibilities in women empowerment