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.
June 5, 2010
Pradyut Bhattacharjee June 5, 2010
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Kaleidoscopic images, which typify life in a village in Bastar, bring forth
the flavour, warmth, simplicity and aspirations of the Marias.
June 4, 2010
Vivek Vyas June 4, 2010
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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
K. Sathyanarayana June 2, 2010
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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.
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.
May 14, 2010
Varun Sharma May 14, 2010
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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.