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NGOs in india : the challenges of women's empowerment and accountability / Patrick Kilby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kilby, Patrick, author.
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
- Routledge contemporary south asia series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development--India.
- Community development.
- Non-governmental organizations--India.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Women in development--India.
- Women in development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Taylor & Francis 2010
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Non-governmental organizations in India; 2 The work of NGOs in India - SHGs and women's empowerment; 3 Rural NGOs; 4 Pune waste-pickers programme; 5 Measuring women's empowerment; 6 NGO accountability; 7 Conclusion; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs https://creativecommons.org/licenses/http://www.oapen.org/download/?type=document&docid=391035
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/16/2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612930201
- 9781136907753
- 1136907750
- 9781136907760
- 1136907769
- 9781282930209
- 1282930206
- 9780203842720
- 0203842723
- OCLC:
- 741356656
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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