October 8, 2010
Peter Cornish October 8, 2010
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Efficient use of water and land, including the storing of excess run-off and the cultivation of alternative crops to lowland rice such as vegetables and pulses, are some of the ways to ensure food security and decent livelihoods for the subsistence farmers in the East India Plateau.
September 22, 2010
Deep Joshi September 22, 2010
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Allocating financial resources to the rain-fed areas in the country will result in the country reaping huge dividends; organizing people to use the legitimate space that NREGA allows could be civil society’s way of meeting the challenge of transforming the de-humanizing poverty in rural areas
September 14, 2010
Sujata Nath September 14, 2010
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Having clarity on the objectives of any learning process that is being offered helps to meet both training and developmental needs thereby ensuring greater opportunities for systemic change.
July 12, 2010
Naila Kabeer July 12, 2010
The ideal approach in any intervention will be to ensure that concerns about gender equality are present in the ideas, information, vision and commitment of the different actors that conceptualize, design, implement, evaluate and learn from different stages of an intervention, in order to make an enormous difference to what the intervention is able to achieve.
July 9, 2010
Sushma Iyengar July 9, 2010
Operating as informal, conciliatory, non-adversarial ‘courts’ with complete lay participation, the Nari Adalats and their variations have initiated a new regime of justice for women.
June 6, 2010
Ranjit Gupta June 6, 2010
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Using a conceptual framework Prof. ranjit gupta suggests ways to address poverty and development.
May 22, 2010
Sameer Kumar May 22, 2010
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Moving from participatory approaches to family based livelihoods planning is an attempt to make development interventions more meaningful and significant by taking into account the aspirations and problems of each individual and increasing ownership.
April 2, 2010
Kirti Misra April 2, 2010
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Employment guarantee has both a demand and a supply side. Balancing the two is certainly not an apolitical exercise. Both sides of the programme have to be steered sensitively, with an awareness of local power dynamics and at the same time ensuring that the weakest are not left behind.
March 12, 2010
Kandala Singh March 12, 2010
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Despite the conflict and power politics that come into play, there is tremendous scope for collective action through collaboration with the government, unions, people’s movements and gram sabhas to ensure effective implementation of NREGA
February 10, 2010
Sahana Mishra February 10, 2010
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Government projects for the welfare of the poor do not reach the targeted beneficiaries because of a failure of the system, and the lack of transparency and integrity in the authorities. The poor are, yet again, the victims of these flawed schemes.