The SEWA movement and rural development : the Banaskantha and Kutch experience / Daniel W. Crowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowell, Daniel W., 1975-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self Employed Women's Association (Ahmadābād, India)--History.

Self Employed Women's Association (Ahmadābād, India).

Women in economic development--India--Banās Kāntha.

Women in economic development.

Women in economic development--India--Kachchh.

Women in rural development--Indian--Banās Kāntha.

Women in rural development.

Women in rural development--India--Kachchh.

Economic development--Citizen participation.

Economic development.

History.

Banās Kāntha (India : District)--Social conditions.

Banās Kāntha (India : District).

Kachchh (India)--Social conditions.

Kachchh (India).

Banās Kāntha (India : District)--Economic conditions.

Kachchh (India)--Economic conditions.

India--Kachchh.

Physical Description:

xix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2003.

Summary:

The book describes the birth and maturation of the Banaskantha DWCRA Mahila SEWA Association (BDMSA), and the Kutch Craft Association, two of SEWA's rural kin, and shares the implications of what they have experienced and achieved for rural development elsewhere. Contents: Foreword/The SEWA Movement/Watershed Development/Forestry and Minor Forest Products/Dairy and Craft Cooperativism: Demand-Driven, Need-Based/Rural Micro-Finance/Health and Nutrition/Kutch and DWCRA/Women and the Panchayat/The Cyclone of 1998/SEWA in the New Millennium/A Different Kind of Derugaltion/Epilogue: Earthquake Relief and Recovery

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0761995811

OCLC:

50693351