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    Implementation of a women-based community driven development (CDD) programme in Tamil Nadu: the Pudhu Vaazhvu Project (PVP)

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2014
    Community Driven Development (CDD) approach is a developmental model that operates on the principle of “community takes control of the development process, resources and decision making authority.” This case study examines one CDD project in southern India, called the Pudhu Vaazhvu Project (PVP).
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    Scope of mobile banking services: women’s Papad-Making Enterprise in urban-slum of Dharavi

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2014
    Lijjat Papad Company is an institution that is registered as a cooperative society of women in Dharavi (India), promoting home-based employment for women. The company facilitates the opening of a basic savings account hosted by Bank of Baroda to pay its workers’ wages.
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    Centre for Micro Finance, India (CMF)

    The Centre for Micro Finance aims to improve the accessibility and quality of financial services for the poor through rigorous research, knowledge dissemination and evidence-based policy outreach.
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    BRICS-cities and the issue of social mobility: attraction of capital and the right to the city

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    The consolidation of a group of countries, like the BRICS nations, as strong global players demonstrates to the whole world that mobility is a real possibility in the international arena. What the BRICS grouping does not make clear, however, is whether this mobility will result in profound systemic changes towards a more equal and democratic world.
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    Bundelkhand drought: a retrospective analysis and way ahead

    National Institute of Disaster Management, 2014
    This study attempts to identify the areas prone to different types of drought - meteorological, hydrological and agricultural droughts. The report presents a scientific analysis of the spatial, temporal and typological distribution of drought at district level for the period during 1998-2009 in the region of Bundelkhand.
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    Development Support Center (DSC)

    Development Support Center (DSC) is an Indian resource organisation that provides knowledge based support to Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), government agencies and other stakeholders in the fiel
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    Catching the virtual bus: ICT for augmenting rural livelihoods

    Development Support Center, 2011
    Whereas plenty of literature is available on the technical aspects of watershed development and other livelihood strategies in India, not much has been written on the institutional aspects, entrepreneurial strategies or the role of ICT.  ICTs offer tremendous potential for strengthening rural livelihoods and diversifying the rural economy.
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    Invisible helpers - women's views on the contributions of working donkeys, horses and mules to their lives

    2014
    In 2011 there were an estimated 112 million working equine animals in the world, with 43 million donkeys, 11 million mules, and 58 million horses. The large majority of these animals live in developing countries and provide daily support to hundreds of millions of poor households by doing a wide range of work in both urban and rural areas.
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    Learning social accountability together: civil society facilitated South-South cooperation in India, Bangladesh and Cambodia

    Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014
    Asian cities have been central drivers of Asia’s economic growth in the last few decades. However, a democratic deficit in many small and medium size Asian cities means municipalities fail to deliver key service provisions to citizens, and civil society engagement in urban governance and institutions remains very limited.
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    South-South knowledge sharing for the inclusion of the urban Poor- India-South Africa Praxis

    Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014
    Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) is a social movement of the urban poor which began in India, networked initially in Asia and then moved to South Africa, and to the other parts of Africa.

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