February 7, 2013
Souparno Chatterjee February 7, 2013
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A comparative study between the Brazilian Bolsa Familia experience and the possibilities that the Indian scenario may offer as the direct Cash Transfer scheme embarks in the country
February 2, 2013
Pradyut Bhattacharjee February 2, 2013
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Exploring whether the benefits of the cash transfer scheme reach the real beneficiaries— the poorest of the poor—this article discusses the challenges facing the government’s latest scheme for poverty alleviation
January 19, 2013
January 19, 2013
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Giving PRIs a constitutional status two decades ago was intended to result in greater economic efficiency, larger resource mobilization, better service delivery and inclusive development leading to higher satisfaction. How far this has been achieved was the subject of deliberations in a workshop. This article is an abstract of the workshop report.
December 10, 2012
Sarada Muraleedharan December 10, 2012
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Kerala’s Kudumbashree network and the rural employment guarantee scheme have converged to provide a unique model of empowerment
November 1, 2012
Kuntalika Kumbhakar November 1, 2012
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PRADAN ’ seeks is to build vibrant institutions for women, led by women which will, in the long run, evolve into an effective demand system. Women will lead institutions that sustain livelihoods, strengthen programmes, influence local government to leverage finances, make local authorities more responsive to the community and, in time, become pressure groups for demanding rights, entitlements and state accountability on many fronts.
April 8, 2012
Shailender Singh April 8, 2012
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Travelling from village to village in one day, enjoying the sunshine and the rain, mingling with the village folk, and sharing their joys and sorrows brings many questions about their lives to the surface
February 8, 2011
Sukanta Sarkar February 8, 2011
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With detailed planning of the processes of implementation of MNREGA, and collaboration among the people, the gram panchayat and PRADAN, the villagers are witnessing changes on different fronts—from an increase in assets and in knowledge about agricultural practices to enhanced production, leading to financial and food security.
January 2, 2011
Binju Abraham January 2, 2011
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Aiming for the prosperity of the family, the Kudumbasree project, led by women, seeks to address the basic needs of less privileged women, thereby providing them a dignified life and a better future.
April 9, 2010
Binju Abraham April 9, 2010
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Airing grievances and raising issues regarding the implementation of MGNREGA, the stakeholders utilize the forum of the jan Sunwai to come face-to-face with each other on a single platform to discuss and learn about the shortcomings and problems that each of them face.
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.