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NGOs in India (Open Access)

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The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability

NGOs in India (Open Access)

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NGOs in India (Open Access) book

The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability
ByPatrick Kilby
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 21 October 2010
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203842720
Pages 160
eBook ISBN 9780203842720
Subjects Area Studies, Development Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Kilby, P. (2010). NGOs in India (Open Access): The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203842720

ABSTRACT

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.

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 well as in-depth interviews with 80 women’s self-help groups, the book highlights the key features of effective empowerment programs. The author uses innovative statistical analysis tools to show how a key factor in empowerment of marginalised women is the accountability relationship between themselves and the supporting NGO. The book goes on to discuss the ways that NGOs can work with communities in the future, and recognises the limitations of a donor-centric accountability framework. It provides a useful contribution to studies on South Asia as well as Gender and Development Studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

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chapter 1|21 pages

Non-governmental organizations in India

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chapter 2|18 pages

The work of NGOs in India – SHGs and women’s empowerment

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chapter 3|24 pages

Rural NGOs

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chapter 4|12 pages

Pune waste-pickers programme

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chapter 5|24 pages

Measuring women’s empowerment

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chapter 6|20 pages

NGO accountability

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chapter 7|10 pages

Conclusion

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