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Improving People’s Lives:
Lessons in Empowerment from Asia
Mukul Sharma
Series name:
NGO Experiences From The Regions
Size:
215 mm x 140 mm
ISSN:
Categories:
Civil Society
ISBN No:
978-0-7619-9603-3
Format:
Publication Date:
2003
Number of Pages:
210
Status:
In stock
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Description
This volume documents powerful lessons in empowerment drawn from the varied experiences of four Asian NGOs engaged respectively in participatory approaches to rural development (Pakistan), tackling the problems of violence against women (Malaysia), improving conditions for Tamil estate workers (Sri Lanka) and capacity-building for local and community-based organisation (India). Besides presenting a diverse range of approaches to people’s development, they also describe new trends among NGOs working with marginalised groups in Asia.
Offering a rare critique of the Asian experience from the viewpoint of people’s empowerment, this book provides many insights and lessons for NGOs, bureaucrats and administrators dealing with social and rural development, those in multilateral and intergovernmental organisations and funding agencies, and students of development and voluntary action.
Published by Sage Publications, India, in association with the Commonwealth Foundation.
Contents
Foreword Colin Ball
Acknowledgements and Series Note
Introduction Mukul Sharma
1. The Rural Support Programmes: Empowering the Rural Poor in Pakistan Ali Dastgeer
2. The Women’s Centre for Change, Penang: Empowering the Women of Malaysia Siti Hawa Ali
3. The Satyodaya Centre: Empowering Tamil Estate Workers in Sri Lanka Muthuvadivoo Sinnathamby
4. The Experience of Sahayi: Capacity-Building for Sustainable Development Gregory Placid
Conclusion Mukul Sharma
Index
About the Foundation, Editor and Contributors
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