1st Edition

NGOs in India The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability

By Patrick Kilby Copyright 2011
160 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges... Read more
Introduction  1. Non-Governmental Organisations in India  2. The work of NGOs in India - SHGs and Women's Empowerment  3. Rural NGOs  4. Pune Waste-picker program  5. Measuring Women's Empowerment  6. NGO Accountability  7. Conclusion

Biography

Patrick Kilby is a political scientist with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His research interests include NGOs, poverty and women’s empowerment.