Foregrounded in the 73rd constitutional amendment of 1992, The Hunger Project India started working with elected women representatives at the local self-governance level in 2001. Over the years, THP India’s strategies have consistently aimed at politically empowering women in Gram Panchayats to be effective leaders. We’re currently working in the six states of Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand. Through multiple programmatic interventions, THP India strategy is geared towards building the leadership of elected women representatives and strengthening their skills and capacities as competent decision-makers and effective leaders on the ground. The focus is on leveraging the political office so that the elected women can exercise their “voice” and “power”, challenge the status quo, address issues of sustainable development, gender equality, and social justice; and lift their communities out of poverty, deprivation, discrimination, and bring in change that has a lasting impact for generations.