The community initiative to advance Cummins’ long-term commitment to the empowerment of women and girls around the world, Cummins Powers Women, has partnered with global non-profit Rise Up for its third Leadership Accelerator Programme to improve the lives of women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people in India.
Hosted in Delhi, the week-long Leadership Accelerator Program was attended by 22 gender equity leaders from non-profit organisations across NCR, selected through a rigorous and competitive application process.
The programme helped these leaders strengthen their leadership skills, share their diverse expertise, develop their advocacy strategies, and collaborate in their ongoing efforts to help women and girls become agents of social change.
As the programme graduates move forward with their projects to bolster gender equity in health, education, and economic opportunity, Rise Up will continue to provide support, a communication from Cummins India said. Interestingly, Cummins and Rise Up aim to expand the programme to other cities throughout India to maximise its impact.
The programme was supported by Ashwath Ram, Managing Director, Cummins Group in India, Shveta Arya, Executive Director – Power Systems Business, Cummins India and sponsor Cummins Powers Women Ashish Aggarwal, Chief Administrative Officer, Cummins India, and Catherine Van Way, Head – Government Relations, Cummins.
Arya noted that empowering women is key to unlocking India’s progress and prosperity. Yet, “we are decades away from achieving gender equity.
At Cummins Powers Women (CPW), we are focused on supporting initiatives that tackle gender disparities head-on to transform the lives of women and girls,” she added.
Vidhu Prabha, Country Lead- India, Rise Up, said, “Given the social, cultural, religious, and geographic diversity in India, there is tremendous value in Rise Up’s commitment to support local non-profit leaders who are best suited to identify the most urgent issues and solutions to achieve systemic change.”
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