Women's Empowerment in South Asia

Ngo Interventions and Agency Building in Bangladesh
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-94370-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: ASAA Women in Asia Series

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 major projects undertaken by non-governmental organisations in Bangladesh to encourage women’s participation. The book identifies the factors which motivated women to be active, discusses how women achieved the level of capacity and knowledge to enable them to serve their communities appropriately, assesses the major difficulties and recommends how empowerment projects can be improved in future. The book concludes that established institutions and traditional customs are often the greatest barrier to women’s participation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panday, Pranab

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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