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NGOs in India ByexamininghowNGOsoperateinsouthernIndiaintheearly2000s,thisbook discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changingaiddynamics.Thekeyfindingsfocusonwhatempowermentmeansfor Indianwomen,andhowNGOaccountabilitytothesewomenisanimportantpartof theempowermentbeingrealized. Thenotionofcommunityempowerment,inwhichthe‘solidarity’ofagroupcan be a path to individual empowerment, is discussed, as well as analysing how empowerment can be a useful concept in development. Based on case studies of 15 NGOs as well as in-depth interviews with 80 women’s self-help groups, the book highlights the key features of effective empowerment programmes. The author uses innovative statistical analysis tools to show how a key factor in empowerment of marginalized women is the accountability relationship between themselves and the supporting NGO. The book goes on to discuss the ways that NGOs can work with communities in the future, and recognizes the limitations of a donor-centric accountability framework. It provides a useful contribution to studiesonSouthAsiaaswellasGenderandDevelopmentStudies. 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. Routledge contemporary South Asia series 1 Pakistan 9 Federalism,Nationalismand Socialandculturaltransformationsina Development Muslimnation IndiaandthePunjabeconomy MohammadA.Qadeer PritamSingh 2 Labor,Democratizationand 10 HumanDevelopmentandSocialPower DevelopmentinIndiaandPakistan PerspectivesfromSouthAsia ChristopherCandland AnanyaMukherjeeReed 3 China-IndiaRelations 11 TheSouthAsianDiaspora Contemporarydynamics Transnationalnetworksandchanging AmardeepAthwal identities EditedbyRajeshRaiandPeterReeves 4 MadrasasinSouthAsia Teachingterror? 12 Pakistan–JapanRelations JamalMalik Continuityandchangeineconomic relationsandsecurityinterests 5 Labor,GlobalizationandtheState AhmadRashidMalik Workers,womenandmigrantsconfront neoliberalism 13 HimalayanFrontiersofIndia EditedbyDebdasBanerjeeand Historical,geo-politicalandstrategic MichaelGoldfield perspectives K.Warikoo 6 IndianLiteratureandPopularCinema Recastingclassics 14 India’sOpen-EconomyPolicy EditedbyHeidiR.M.Pauwels Globalism,rivalry,continuity JalalAlamgir 7 IslamistMilitancyinBangladesh Acomplexweb 15 TheSeparatistConflictinSriLanka AliRiaz Terrorism,ethnicity,politicaleconomy AsokaBandarage 8 RegionalisminSouthAsia Negotiatingcooperation,institutional 16 India’sEnergySecurity structures EditedbyLigiaNoronhaand KishoreC.Dash AnantSudarshan 17 GlobalizationandtheMiddle 27 TsunamiRecoveryin ClassesinIndia SriLanka Thesocialandculturalimpactof Ethnicandregionaldimensions neoliberalreforms DennisB.McGilvrayand RuchiraGanguly-Scraseand MicheleR.Gamburd TimothyJ.Scrase 28 Development,Democracyand 18 WaterPolicyProcessesinIndia theState Discoursesofpowerandresistance CritiquingtheKeralaModelof VandanaAsthana development K.RaviRaman 19 MinorityGovernmentsinIndia Thepuzzleofelusivemajorities 29 MohajirMilitancyin CsabaNikolenyi Pakistan Violenceandtransformationinthe 20 TheMaoistInsurgencyinNepal Karachiconflict Revolutioninthetwenty-firstcentury NicholaKhan EditedbyMahendraLawotiand AnupK.Pahari 30 Nationbuilding,GenderandWar CrimesinSouthAsia 21 GlobalCapitalandPeripheralLabour BinaD’Costa Thehistoryandpoliticaleconomyof plantationworkersinIndia 31 TheStateinIndiaafter K.RaviRaman Liberalization Interdisciplinaryperspectives 22 MaoisminIndia EditedbyAkhilGuptaand Reincarnationofultra-leftwing K.Sivaramakrishnan extremisminthe21stcentury BidyutChakrabartyandRajatKujur 32 NationalIdentitiesinPakistan The1971warincontemporary 23 EconomicandHumanDevelopment Pakistanifiction inContemporaryIndia CaraCilano Cronyismandfragility DebdasBanerjee 33 PoliticalIslamandGovernance inBangladesh 24 CultureandtheEnvironment EditedbyAliRiazandC.Christine intheHimalaya Fair ArjunGuneratne 34 BengaliCinema 25 TheRiseofEthnicPoliticsinNepal ‘Anothernation’ Democracyinthemargins SharmisthaGooptu SusanI.Hangen 35 NGOsinIndia 26 TheMultiplexinIndia Thechallengesofwomen’s Aculturaleconomyofurbanleisure empowermentandaccountability AdrianAthiqueandDouglasHill PatrickKilby NGOs in India ’ The challenges of women s empowerment and accountability Patrick Kilby Firstpublished2011 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 270MadisonAve,NewYork,NY10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. ©2011PatrickKilby Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilizedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans, nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording, orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissionin writingfromthepublishers. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Kilby,Patrick. NGOsinIndia:thechallengesofwomen’sempowermentandaccountability/PatrickKilby. p.cm–(Routledgecontemporarysouthasiaseries) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Womenindevelopment–India.2.Communitydevelopment–India. 3.Non-governmentalorganizations–India.I.Title HQ1240.5.I4K552010 305.48’969420954091724–dc22 2010011863 ISBN 0-203-84272-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN978–0–415–54430–6(hbk) ISBN978–0–203–84272–0(ebk) Contents Listofillustrations ix Acknowledgements x Glossary xi Introduction 1 1 Non-governmentalorganizationsinIndia 4 Introduction 4 WhatmakesNGOstick?Sometheory 5 IndianNGOs 10 Conclusion 23 2 TheworkofNGOsinIndia–SHGsandwomen’sempowerment 25 Introduction 25 PovertyinIndia 25 ModelsofNGOintervention 29 Empowerment 32 Conclusion 41 3 RuralNGOs 43 Introduction 43 ResourcingNGOs 44 NGOresponses 49 TheNGOcasestudies 51 IDSprojects2008–2009 56 Conclusion 65 4 Punewaste-pickersprogramme 67 Introduction 67 Waste-pickers 67 viii Contents Waste-pickersandSNDT 68 Solidwastecollectionandhandling(SWaCH)co-operative 75 Conclusion 78 5 Measuringwomen’sempowerment 79 Introduction 79 ResearchingempowermentwithIndianNGOs 80 Empowerment 83 Factorsthataffectempowerment 89 Empowermentinpractice 94 Conclusion 101 6 NGOaccountability 103 Introduction 103 Accountability 104 Conclusion 120 7 Conclusion 123 Introduction 123 NGOsandempowerment 125 Accountability 128 References 133 Index 144 Illustrations Figures 1 Frameworkforrankingempowerment 81 2 NGOdownwardaccountability 89 3 NGOaccountabilities 107 Tables 1 AschemaofNGOvalues 9 2 ResultsofSpearmanrankcorrelation 83 3 Summaryofempowermentresponses 85 Map 1 MapofIndia 44