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Author: Beni Alphonse Ekka
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommemorative volume brought out on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of Xavier Institute of Social Service; contributed articles.
Author: Pranab Panday
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1317372646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic development in the poorest countries often makes better progress when women become involved in, and take a lead in, development projects. Encouraging women’s involvement, however, is often a major difficulty in societies where traditionally women’s status has been inferior and where women are expected to be domestic and passive. This book, based on extensive original research, considers major projects undertaken by non-governmental organisations in Bangladesh to encourage women’s participation. The book identifies the factors which motivated women to be active, discusses how women achieved the level of capacity and knowledge to enable them to serve their communities appropriately, assesses the major difficulties and recommends how empowerment projects can be improved in future. The book concludes that established institutions and traditional customs are often the greatest barrier to women’s participation.
Author: Vimala Ramachandran
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9383074167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMahila Samakhya is as much a story of a government programme for women's education and empowerment as it is of the celebration of the struggles of poor women for gender just rights. Spread across eight states and more than 150 districts in India, the Mahila Samakhya programme grew out of a unique partnership between the women's movement and the government. In this collection of essays, concerned scholars from different parts of India chart Mahila Samakhya's fascinating journey of setting up poor women's collectives and women's agency in establishing an equal space and voice in the public domain - a radical departure from the more common approaches of organising women around economic concerns. The writers explore broad gender issues grounded within the field experience of Mahila Samakhya, providing insights into the workings of the programme at different levels, its conceptual challenges, strategic choices, the opportunities and pitfalls of partnership with government and above all the willingness of poor women to come together voluntarily to address and overcome gender barriers.
Author: Mine Sato
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-05-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9811912270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the understanding of factors and mechanisms involved in the development of agency mainly in three related contexts --- participatory development, extension work, and service transactions. The research has its starting point in the recognition of the critical role played by “agency” (commonly understood as want/will for and practice of self-determination and self-management) on the part of intended beneficiaries of services and projects for effective implementation and sustainability. It is designed to address this subject matter with its principal focus on inner capacities and orientations of human beings, posing questions as to how such capacities and orientations could be enhanced and activated in practice by external actors in the field of public policies for socioeconomic and international development. The project is organized transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries --- combining anthropological, psychological, and economic approaches and perspectives.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9264168354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmpowerment of those living in poverty is both a critical driver and an important measure of poverty reduction. This report aims to build donor understanding of empowerment and how best to support it.
Author: Bradford W. Sheafor
Publisher: Pearson Educacion
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780205176793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique text emphasizes the many different techniques needed for successful social work practice. Parts I and II provide knowlege, values, and competencies for effective social work practice, while Parts III through V contain 144 clear and readable descriptions of practice techniques, presented in a handbook format for convenient accessibility of information.
Author: Jenny Edwards
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2014-03-13
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 178032586X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances whilst providing an in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations. Drawing on unique, original research and approaching empowerment as a complex process of negotiation, rather than a linear sequence of inputs and outcomes, this crucial collection highlights the difficulty of creating common agendas for the advancement of women's power and rights, and argues for a more nuanced, context-based approach to development theory and practice. An indispensible text for anyone interested in gender and development, this book shows that policies and approaches to development that view women as instrumental to other objectives will never promote women's empowerment as they fail to address the structures by which gender inequality is perpetuated over time.
Author: Stephens, Christine
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0335222080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Health Promotion' provides a critical and theoretical basis for practice in social and community approaches to health promotion.
Author: M.Rezaul Islam
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9811017476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pivot examines non-governmental organization (NGO) interventions in two community development initiatives, namely social capital and community empowerment, and their role in funding and formulating development frameworks in developing countries like Bangladesh. It considers the key development discourse issues of collective action, social trust and access to knowledge, to political processes and to financial, social and natural resources. Given the large proportion of foreign funding, NGOs and donors also increasingly face the twin challenges of demonstrating both efficient and effective delivery of services and accountability in their relationships with various stakeholders. Reflecting on the relevance of NGOs for community development, and the merits, challenges and limitations of NGO activities, this book provides a comprehensive study of NGO participation in community development in Bangladesh and Third World countries more widely to highlight a global concern with international implications.
Author: Usha Jumani
Publisher: Foundation Books
Published: 2006-03-06
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9788175963177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmpowerment is an integral element of a democratic system. The maturity of a democracy is directly related to the level of empowerment its citizens and institutions experience. The term 'empowerment' is used in different contexts and this book addresses this problem through a comparative analysis of three major organisational systems - business, government and social development. The book presents a new conceptual framework for understanding the process of empowerment. It combines case studies specially for this volume, with secondary data and the author's first hand experience of working with development organisations. The differential understanding of empowerment in various organisational contexts helps to promote cross-sectoral learning, and contributes to a qualitative shift in empowering society as a whole.
