1st Edition

Women's Empowerment in South Asia NGO Interventions and Agency Building in Bangladesh

By Pranab Panday Copyright 2016
124 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

124 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

124 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Economic development in the poorest countries often makes better progress when women become involved in, and take a lead in, development projects. Encouraging women’s involvement, however, is often a major difficulty in societies where traditionally women’s status has been inferior and where women are expected to be domestic and passive. This book, based on extensive original research, considers... Read more
1. Setting the Scene
2. NGOs in Agency Building and Women Empowerment: State Substitutes in a Neo-Liberal World
3. NGOs in Bangladesh
4. Getting Women heard
5. Transformation of Power: A Wave of Change
6. People Change The System
7. Conclusion

Biography

Pranab Panday is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.