Theme

July 12, 2010

Women’s Empowerment and Development Interventions

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

A Study of Nari Adalats and Caste Panchayats in Gujarat

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

Integrated Innovations in Development

Using a conceptual framework Prof. ranjit gupta suggests ways to address poverty and development.
June 5, 2010

Life in a Maria Village

Kaleidoscopic images, which typify life in a village in Bastar, bring forth the flavour, warmth, simplicity and aspirations of the Marias.
June 4, 2010

Van Utthan Sansthan: Securing the Commons for the Common Good

Developing degraded forest lands through collective management by the tribals and in collaboration with the government, the vuS seeks shape democratic institutions, and conserve land rights and tenure of communities on these lands.
June 2, 2010

Potential for Carbon Trading through the Raising of Host Plants of Tasar Silkworm

Recognizing the growth potential of carbon trading, which is still in its initial days, this article explores more fully as to how the benefits of carbon trading can be linked to the tasar rearing activities that are being promoted by Pradan in the poorer regions.
June 1, 2010

Community Owned CSP System

May 22, 2010

Family Based Livelihoods Planning to Address Grass Roots Concerns

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.
May 14, 2010

MGNREGA and Livelihoods – the Story of an Orchard

developing a mango orchard in a hitherto barren tract of land with the landless households of jharia kocha in gopalpura proves to be not only a revenue generating model but also a rights-based initiative.
May 12, 2010

Looking Back at Our Work with Damodar

despite its primary aim of promoting sustainable livelihoods among the rural poor, Pradan extended support to the locals in hazaribag and koderma in their rights-based struggle and in creating greater awareness in areas such as gender, reproductive and sexual health, and legal literacy