Building Women's Capacities
Interventions in Gender Transformation
1st Edition
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-7619-9586-9 (ISBN)
Description
Ranjani Murthy uses case studies from across India to provide a volume which can facilitate women's empowerment by making existing know-how on capacity building available.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9586-9 (9780761995869)
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Ranjani K Murthy is an independent researcher based in Chennai whose areas of interest have been gender, poverty and health for the past two decades. Through her work with MYRADA (1984-88) and with Initiatives: Women in Development (IWID, 1991-94), as well as by conducting independent research, she has gathered grassroots knowledge along with experience in policy analysis, capacity building and impact assessment. She has carried out policy and impact assessment studies with a focus on gender and poverty in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Moldova and Sudan (for UN organizations and for national and international bodies which fund NGOs), and has prepared a global literature review on reproductive health service accountability within health sector reforms (for the former Women's Health Project, South Africa). Ms Ranjani Murthy was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (1994). Her published books include Indian NGOs and their Capacity Building in the 1990s (1997, co-author); Building Women's Capacities: Experiences in Gender Transformation (Sage, 2001, editor); and Denial and Distress: Gender, Poverty and Human Rights in Asia (2003, co-author).
Content
Foreword - Maria Verhoeven
Introduction - Ranjani K Murthy
PART ONE: ISSUE-SPECIFIC GENDER TRAINING
To Be or Not to Be - Sabala and Kranti
A Self-Help Experience in Women's Reproductive Health
Transformative Training - Nitya Rao
An Experiment in Pudukottai
Microenterprise Promotion for Women in a Traditional, Male-Controlled Sector - Frances Sinha
The Silk Industry Project in Karnataka and West Bengal
'God Sits on Our Throat and Tells Us to Discriminate against Girls' - Adithi
An Experience with Gender Sensitiation of Inland Men and Women Fishworkers
Empowering Women in Gram Panchayats through Training - F Stephen
Grassroots Training through Satellite Technology - Ammu Joseph
PART TWO: EXISTENTIAL GENDER TRAINING
Windows to the Outside World - Asmita
Experiences in Gender Training in Hyderabad Slums
Enhancing the Negotiating Power of Women within Families through Process Work - R Mohanraj and Lakshmi Raman
Under the Guise of a Tailoring Programme - A Gandhimathi
DAWN's Experience in Gender Sensitization of Adolescent Girls
PART THREE: NON-TRAINING AND INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING OF WOMEN
Being True to Feminism - B K Anitha and Anita Gurumurthy
The Methodology of the Status of Rural Women in Karnataka
Mainstreaming Gender in Participatory Technology Development - Edith van Walsum and Rama Devi Kolli
Dynamics between Farmers Groups, NGOs and a Support Organization in South India
Empowerment from Below - Prema Gopalan
Self-Education and Empowerment of Grassroots Women's Collectives
(Up)Lifting Water and Women or Lip Service Only? - Nelleke van der Vleuten
The Gender Dimension of a Lift Irrigation Programme
Gender, Organizations and Change - Shobhita Rajagopal and Kanchan Mathur
Lessons from Gender Training of Community-Level Education Workers
'Being There Was an Important Accident' - Shubha Chacko
Rethinking Assumptions Based on Grassroots Experiences
PART FIVE: LOOKING AHEAD
Lessons on Capacity Building for Women's Empowerment - Ranjani K Murthy
Introduction - Ranjani K Murthy
PART ONE: ISSUE-SPECIFIC GENDER TRAINING
To Be or Not to Be - Sabala and Kranti
A Self-Help Experience in Women's Reproductive Health
Transformative Training - Nitya Rao
An Experiment in Pudukottai
Microenterprise Promotion for Women in a Traditional, Male-Controlled Sector - Frances Sinha
The Silk Industry Project in Karnataka and West Bengal
'God Sits on Our Throat and Tells Us to Discriminate against Girls' - Adithi
An Experience with Gender Sensitiation of Inland Men and Women Fishworkers
Empowering Women in Gram Panchayats through Training - F Stephen
Grassroots Training through Satellite Technology - Ammu Joseph
PART TWO: EXISTENTIAL GENDER TRAINING
Windows to the Outside World - Asmita
Experiences in Gender Training in Hyderabad Slums
Enhancing the Negotiating Power of Women within Families through Process Work - R Mohanraj and Lakshmi Raman
Under the Guise of a Tailoring Programme - A Gandhimathi
DAWN's Experience in Gender Sensitization of Adolescent Girls
PART THREE: NON-TRAINING AND INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING OF WOMEN
Being True to Feminism - B K Anitha and Anita Gurumurthy
The Methodology of the Status of Rural Women in Karnataka
Mainstreaming Gender in Participatory Technology Development - Edith van Walsum and Rama Devi Kolli
Dynamics between Farmers Groups, NGOs and a Support Organization in South India
Empowerment from Below - Prema Gopalan
Self-Education and Empowerment of Grassroots Women's Collectives
(Up)Lifting Water and Women or Lip Service Only? - Nelleke van der Vleuten
The Gender Dimension of a Lift Irrigation Programme
Gender, Organizations and Change - Shobhita Rajagopal and Kanchan Mathur
Lessons from Gender Training of Community-Level Education Workers
'Being There Was an Important Accident' - Shubha Chacko
Rethinking Assumptions Based on Grassroots Experiences
PART FIVE: LOOKING AHEAD
Lessons on Capacity Building for Women's Empowerment - Ranjani K Murthy