Prof Janaki Rajan, Hony. Director, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, is the coordinator for the South Asian Women’s Network on Education.

Coordinator’s Report for the South Asian Women’s Network on Education

The group agreed to centre collaborations around two inter-connected strands of gender and diversity in education, gender itself being one of the core diversities. Around these strands, the following activities are envisaged:

1.Student and Faculty of Education Exchanges, paln to be co-ordinated by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (“Janaki Rajan” janakirajan1@rediffmail.com), Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development, Karachi. (“qamar.safdar” qamar.safdar@aku.edu), and University of Kelaniya
Dalugama, Sri Lanka (“Dr. Maithree Wickramasinghe” mkwickramasinghe@gmail.com) and Dr. Selvi Thiruchandran (“selvy” <selvy@sltnet.lk>).

2.Training on Gender Mainstreaming of Education in collaboration with Association of Commonwealth Universities to be co-ordinated by “Maithree Wickramasinghe” mkwickramasinghe@gmail.com

3.Establishing a South Asia Library Resource Network for Women and Children’s Literature to be co-ordinated by Katha:(”Geeta Dharmarajan”geeta@katha.org)

4.Establishing a South Asian Learning To Live Together Network to be co-ordinated by Ms. Razia Ismail, Women’s Coalition Trust,(”Razia Ismail” “iacrindia@yahoo.com).

5.Cross-country Research:
- Literature Review from the perspective of Feminist Research Methodology
- Teacher Education Curricula
- National Curricular Frameworks and Text materials
- Women and Girl child rights

6.On-line Joint Degree/Certificate Programme on South Asian Women Studies

7.Information and Ideas exchange through e-secretariat

The group will mark December 8 as the Girl Child Day

The members of the South Asian Women’s Network on Education are :

Coordinator : Professor Janaki Rajan, Hony Director, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia.

S.N.	Name	Organization/Deptt.	Email Address/Phone No.
1.	Ms. Rahila Fatima Shakil	The Citizen’s Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan	rahilafatima@gmail.com
2.	Dr. Qamar Safdar	The Aga Khan University, Pakistan	qamar.safdar@aku.edu
3.	Prof. Azra Razzack	Centre for Dalit and Minorities Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	azrarazack@yahoo.com
4.	Dr. Baran Farooqui	Deptt. of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	baranfarooqi@hotmail.com
5.	Prof. Farida A. Khan	Deptt. of Educational Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	khan.farida@gmail.com
6.	Ms. Selvy Thiru.	WERC, Colombo, Srilanka	selvy@set.net.lk
7.	Ms. Geeta Dharamrajan	Katha, New Delhi, India	geeta@katha.org
8.	Prof. Shahbano Aliani	Thardeep Rural Development Programme, Sindh, Pakistan	shah.bano@thardeep.org
9.	Prof. Sunita Zaidi	Deptt. of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	syedinayet@yahoo.com
10.	Ms. Bela Raza Jamil	South Asia Forum for Education Development (SAFED)/ITA, Pakistan	itacec@gmail.com
11.	Dr. Jessy Abraham	Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	jss.abraham@gmail.com 9810234790
12.	Ms. Sharmila Bhagat	Ankur, Society for Alternatives in Education, New Delhi, India	9811672018
13.	Dr D. Parimala	Deptt. of Education, Delhi University, Delhi, India	9953256296
14.	Prof. Janaki Rajan	Director, S.N. Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	rajan.janaki@gmail.com
15.	Ms. Ami Shelat	Self Employed Women’s Association Ahmedabad, India	9925590081
16.	Ms. Cecily E. Benjamin	R&D Deptt. ESAF, Nagpur, India	9922660154
17.	Dr. Maithree Wickramasinghe	University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka	0094112573308
18.	Dr. Razia Ismail	Tran Asia Alliance, New Delhi, India
19.	Dr. Nuzhat Kazmi	Deptt. of History Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	nuzhatkazmi@yahoo.com 9891440122
20.	Dr. Sarwat Ali	Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	ali.sarwat@gmail.com
21.	Dr. Farah Farooqui	Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India	9818461817