The Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality (CWEGE) and Ammachi Labs are two research centers within Amrita University, focusing on promoting gender equality and fostering women’s empowerment with a special focus on technology and other innovative methods. The fact that CWEGE has been designated as India’s only UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment since 2016 is a testimony to the commitment, success, and progress made towards achieving societal transformation and conducting world-class research.
CWEGE’s significant contribution towards this agenda is our flagship systems-based solution model that represents a ground-breaking and innovative methodology to tackle the complex and context-specific requirements related to women’s socio-economic empowerment. It applies complex systems theory to design, implement, and assess effective interventions with active and inclusive participation. Our use of this solution model aligns with Amrita University’s mission for high-impact, compassion-driven research to deliver gender-transformative action rooted in research across all sustainability pillars and geographic contexts. This innovative solution is grounded in our core values of promoting social good, sustainability, systems-oriented approaches, participatory research, inclusivity, transparency, and accountable programming.
Systems Innovation is an eLearning and collaborative platform for systems thinking and systems change. We work to empower a diversity of individuals and organizations in learning and applying systems innovation ideas, by thinking in systems and understanding complexity to better manage and design complex systems towards realizing sustainable outcomes. We are a networked organization of about 10K members, about 60 Hub team members, 20 hub representatives, and 4 platform team members that contribute to creating content, organizing events, running the website etc. Community members are broad and diverse in areas of work and interest from academics – students, professors, researchers; to management – consultants, analysts, policymakers; to designers, engineers, developers, and innovators.
