India and Gender
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- BRIDGE
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Search BRIDGE's database of gender-focused material
- The BLDS gender collection
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Search for the latest gender-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Empowering rural women of Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand through farmers’ cooperative
- Practice In Participation, 2013
- Empowering Rural Women of Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand through Farmers’ Cooperative” narrates the success stories of the rural women of Alaknanda valley in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand; these women, with the help of Hima...
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces
- Zed Books, 2013
- This chapter from the book, 'Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas' discusses the gendered construction of participation in local institutions created by the state in India to promote develo...
- Unregulated and unaccountable: how the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk
- C. Averill 2013
- This Oxfam briefing reveals that decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a health system, which is unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite recent efforts to strengthen the public...
- The “We Can” Campaign in South Asia, 2004-2011. External evaluation report
- M Raab / Oxfam, 2011
- This evaluation was commissioned by Oxfam GB to measure the impact of the We Can campaign, which ran from 2004-2010 in six countries across south Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The overall goal o...
- Community-Based Biodiversity Management South Asia Programme (CBM-SA) Mid-Term Evaluation Report
- C. Pionetti 2012
- The Community-Based Management of Biodiversity programme is funded by the Norwegian NGO Development Fund in South Asia and coordinated by LI-BIRD in Nepal. The CBM approach is being implemented in 29 sites across four countries with t...
- Samyukt Mahila Samiti (SMS): powerful institutional tool to make women prominent in the watershed development
- E. Kale / Watershed Organisation Trust, 2012
- Although women’s significant role in natural resource management is widely acknowledged in watershed development programmes in India, the discussion rarely goes beyond the formation of self-help groups (SHG) and conventional cred...
- Mobilising men in practice: challenging sexual and gender based violence in institutional settings
- A Greig; J Edstrom / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2012
- This document brings together stories, tools and lessons from the work of the Mobilising Men programme, a partnership looking at ways of engaging men as gender activists. Set up in 2009, the programme involves country partners in Keny...
- Climate change and the role of gender: A study from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in South India
- S. Xenarios / Bioforsk, 2012
- The agrarian communities within less developed parts of South Asia are frequently referred in climate change and gender studies. In this study, a quantitative analysis was carried out to study the link between CC and the role of gende...
- Older Women In India - A Note by Agewell Foundation
- Agewell Foundation, 2012
- Briefing paper looking at major concerns of Indian women, including destitution, alienation and isolation, financial and social insecurity and medical issues.
- Men Who Care: A multi country qualitative study of men in non traditional care giving roles
- G Barker; M Greene; M Nascimento / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2012
- What hinders men's involvement in care work? What encourages it? Who are the men who are doing more than the average and are taking on care work as a key part of their lives? How do men understand and describe their participation in a...
- Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEQUIN)
- The Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEQUIN) is a Non Profit Organization working in India towards the empowerment of marginalized and excluded sections of the population, with a special focus on women.
- The Goodwill Social Work Centre
- The Goodwill Social Work Centre aims to: promote the overall development of children, youth and women in rural and urban areas in India, who are socially and economically deprived provide family-centred home-based intensive services to children, youth and women in dysfunctional families in slums and backward areas in India sensitise rural and ur...
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Development
- Developing scientific research capability in Kerala
- SAHAYOG
- SAHAYOG is a registered non-profit voluntary organisation. It was established in 1992 with the aim of promoting sustainable, participatory rural development. SAHAYOG works in the Hindi-speaking states of north India, with its headquarters in Lucknow which is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. It uses the rights based approach to tackle issues like women’s health and their rights, gender equality, vio...
- Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICCSR)
- Promoting research in Indian social sciences
- Institute of Social Studies Trust, India (ISST)
- Research organisation concerned with the promotion of social justice and gender equity
- Centre for Social Research, India (CSR)
- CSR is a leading women's institution that works at the grassroots, regional and international levels to raise women's awareness of their rights, build inroads into decision-making institutions and eliminate violence against women. The organisation’s key areas of focus include gender and social justice, violence against women, HIV/AIDS awareness, trafficking in women and children. CSR concentrates...
- Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF)
- Action against child labour in India
- Social and Development Research and Action Group (SADRAG)
- Action research and development organisation focusing on gender and socio-economic issues in India
- Sampark, India
- Organization focussing on poverty reduction and women's empowerment in India
