In Kerala, the first ever Gender Park in the country to promote research and other initiatives to enable total gender equality will be inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee at Kozhikode on Saturday. The park has come up on a 24-acre campus. It is an initiative of the Department of Social Justice of the State government to bring together the state, academia and civil society on a common platform to address various gender issues. The Park authorities said, the park will be the country's first large scale initiative to create an environment to share global knowledge and experiences in reducing gender inequalities.<br/><br/>Sources said the initiative makes the state government pioneer in the country, in gender policy, research and inclusion. A Gender Institute at the park would focus on learning, research and capacity development, as part of supporting the efforts of the State and Central governments in ensuring an inclusive, discrimination free society. The Gender institute would cover issues pertaining to all three genders as per the 2015 gender and transgender policies of the State government. The Authorities have the plan to link knowledge creation to policy-making through a multi-disciplinary research and learning process and, eventually, turn the park into the first Gender University in the country.<br/><br/>