September 19, 2010
Avijit Choudhury September 19, 2010
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Amidst kilometre upon kilometre of parched, barren land lies the tribal village of Amagara—a verdant oasis of crops and vegetables—the result of the efforts of the farmers, who dared to risk and experiment with new ideas, methods and technology.
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.
August 19, 2010
Kuntalika Kumbhakar August 19, 2010
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Using the resources of the land and experimenting with different kinds of crops and vegetables helped one enterprising villager of Amagara to become selfsufficient, without having to migrate for work as agricultural labour or unskilled labour on construction sites in big cities.
August 19, 2010
Subodh Kumar Verma August 19, 2010
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Creating an awareness of the legal rights that women enjoy, and identifying and training legal para-workers to help the village women access these rights both in their homes and in the gram sabhas are steadily showing results, in terms of empowerment of these women and their position in their social milieu.
August 4, 2010
B. Umesh Rai August 4, 2010
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Tapping into the enormous potential of the school dropouts and the youth of the rural communities, the Saral TA courses in ICT training seek to transfer knowledge and skills in the basic management of specific applications, tailored to the needs of the rural ICT projects, thereby empowering them and stemming, to some measure, the flow of migration to urban areas and giving back to the rural communities valuable assets in the form of trained ICT personnel.
August 1, 2010
Vishal Jamkar August 1, 2010
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Physical violence, abuse and desertion failed to break Saraswati bai’s spirit. With support from her SHG, CRP and her lawyer, she not only became financially self-sufficient but also succeeded in challenging the social norms of the village
July 19, 2010
Sharbani Bose July 19, 2010
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Providing solid support through their presence and rallying around a rape victim and her family by ensuring legal advice and services, the SHGs join the fight for justice in an inherently unequal social set up.
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.