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Grassroots Development Initiatives in India Rights Based Approach to Development and Advocacy
This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis. Their work has been instrumental in making government machinery pro-poor by implementing development programmes with greater transparency and accountability. Conscientisation of Adivasis by voluntary organisations through their educative role has resulted in the advancement of their lives and the emergence of autonomous leadership.
The study concludes that the ideological base of the founders of the organisations made the Adivasis independent and self-supportive for their development from their earlier status of servitude through initiating and accomplishing the task of conscientisation.
This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Development Initiatives: Theoretical Framework
2. Research Methodology
3. The Socio-economic Profile of the Members of the Organisations
4. Impact of Rights Based Approach to Development and Advocacy
5. Conscientisation and Development
Appendices
Appendix I: Campaign for the Release of Bonded Labourers from Thane District
Appendix II: Developmental Programmes for the Freedom Bonded Labourers
Appendix III: Members’ Savings Accounts and Joint Property Records
Appendix IV: Advocacy Efforts for the Policy Change
Bibliography
Biography
Sampat Kale is Assistant Professor at the School of Rural Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur. He was visiting Faculty at Karachi-Pakistan and Stockholm-Sweden.
