Scheme Details 

Hub for Empowerment of Women aims to create an environment in which women realize their full potential. The support provided under the HEW is guiding, linking and handholding women to various institutional and schematic set ups for their empowerment and development including equal access to healthcare, quality education, career and vocational counselling/ training, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, backward and forward linkages, health and safety for workers, social security and digital literacy at districts/ Blocks/ Gram Panchayats level .

• The mandate of HEW is to address gaps in state action for women and for promoting interministerial and inter-sectoral convergence through strengthening the processes that promote holistic empowerment of women by creating an environment conducive to social change by improving access and utilization of government schemes by women.
• It strive to create an independent identity for women through economic empowerment, eradicating all forms of exploitation and discrimination with their rightful share in the allocation of resources and decision making etc., for them to become equal partners in the process of national building for a Women led Development.

Functions: Some of the specific activities to be included under Hubs at various levels are: 

• To act as PMU for all Components under Mission Shakti 
• To bridge the information and knowledge gap regarding schemes and facilities available for women. 
•  To facilitate convergent action through frontline workers to spread awareness about government schemes, programmes and services (as mentioned above) and motivate rural women to join various programs meant for their development and help in improving access. v. 
• Organise awareness campaigns involving grassroots level for gender equity and convergence and awareness generation which fuels demand by women as rightful entitlement holders for delivery of services under different schemes/programs meant for them. vi. 
• Facilitate women in preparation of documents for establishing identity for enrolling in government programmes through existing government mechanisms like BPL survey, Aadhar (UID), MNREGS enrolment which can be utilized for establishing identity through CSCs. 
• Bring issues affecting women as an agenda before  State/ Districts/ Block/ Gram Panchayats for suitable redressal. 
• Creating a common platform at the delivery level with focus on women-centric schemes/ programmes. 
• To identify best practices (Government, CSO, PRI) in various sectoral areas like health, education, microfinance, livelihoods, etc. from a gender perspective, document initiatives and disseminate the same to intended recipients. 
• It will engage in feedback collection, evaluation and analysis of all initiatives of MWCD and other Ministries/ Departments of GoI pertaining to women and girls.
• Mobilize women into joining collectives like Saurya Dal and to help strengthen existing collectives at village level. 
• To act as a forum for addressing women‟s issues in the near vicinity and give women a platform to come together and explore their potentials and possibilities. 
• Provide easy access to informational and other resources to the community members for effective participation in Gram Sabhas and PRIs
• To increase women‟s participation in the functioning of PRI institutions and village level institutions like Anganwadi Centres
• Mobilize women to participate in Gram Sabha meetings.