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Women's livelihood rights
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ISBN: 1282077945 9786612077944 8132101537 9788132101536 9780761936008 0761936009 9788178297637 8178297639 Year: 2007 Publisher: Los Angeles London New Delhi Sage Publications Sage Publications India

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This interdisciplinary book looks at women`s natural resource-based livelihoods in the wider context of development viewed through the lens of citizenship rights. Unravelling the patriarchal social fabric and policy structures in India, it argues that the concept of citizenship needs to be extended to include recognition of ways of life and livelihood, so that women take their legitimate space as productive human beings, entitled to dignity as a political right, and not merely to protection and welfare. The editor weaves together a historical perspective on varied dimensions of livelihood, dev


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NGOs in india : the challenges of women's empowerment and accountability
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ISBN: 0415533678 0415544300 9786612930201 0203842723 1136907769 1282930206 1136907750 Year: 2010 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000's, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the empowerment being realised.The notion of community empowerment, in which the 'solidarity' of a group can be a path to individual empowerment, is discussed, as well as analysing how empowerment can be a useful concept in development. Based on case studies of 15 NGOs as wel

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