City Leaders

Overview

City leaders is a systematic leadership programme for councillors in India’s cities focusing on women leaders, to catalyse transformation of the quality of life in India’s cities, and make our cities inclusive

Objective

1. To establish the need and opportunities for a systematic city leadership programme, with a focus on women leaders
2. To impart specially curated programmes across the spectrum of city leaders – councillors, mayors, standing committee chairpersons, ward committee members, and active citizenry
3. To equip city leaders with the knowledge and new-age tools to better govern the city and become true city leaders
4. To strengthen the hands of city leaders and truly empower them beyond training with continuous engagement and networking
5. To build a pan India city leadership programme

Expected Outcome

This initiative will act as a systematic leadership programme for councillors in Indian cities and shall be key to making our cities sustainable, resilient and inclusive from the bottom up.

Councillors of India – Challenges & Opportunities is a short film that captures Janaagraha’s journey across six cities following the life of councillors.

This short film is in the backdrop of Janaagraha’s and Dasra’s report – ‘City Leaders’ , a landscape study with 65 councillors and 15 thought leaders across 16 states to establish the needs and opportunities for a Councillor Leadership Programme, with a focus on women councillors.

The ‘City Leaders’ was launched by Mr Aaditya Thackeray, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Government of Maharashtra.

The short film and the report were released at “Dare to Lead: Empowering Local Women Leaders for Inclusive Cities”, on 21st March, at the 13th Dasra Philanthropy Week.

The panel discussion “Dare to Lead: Empowering Local Women Leaders for Inclusive Cities” moderated by Dhanya Rajendran