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C., Nanjunda D. "Role of NGOs in Biodiversity Conservation: A Situational Analysis." Mapana - Journal of Sciences 7, no. 2 (November 30, 2008): 88–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.12723/mjs.13.9.
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India has experienced serious deforestation during the last century and it is anticipated that by the year 2035 India will be almost devoid of forests. NGO's have gained popularity in various parts of India by initiatives to conserve biodiversity such as establishing forest reserves and through the mobilization of indigenous organizations and development. However, the relationships that emerge among NGOs, Govt. and indigenous people with regard to conservation and control over biodiversity is problematic and co-management of established forest reserves often failed, because indigenous ways of use and control of biodiversity were difficult to accept by some conservation organizations. More importantly, there is the claim that NGO's have been working to create dependency while mobilizing indigenous organizations with assistance of Western donors. Recently, to face mainstream conservation models various NGOs are launching awareness movements. These NGOs movements emphasize a co evolution between local biodiversity, indigenous ecological practices, culture and self-development.
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Suryavanshi, Urvashi. "Crowdfunding Adoption and Practices in NGOs in India." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 7, no. 9 (September 20, 2022): 53–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2022.v07.i09.008.
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NGOs are crucial to the expansion of social cause requirements. There are numerous small NGOs in India working for a range of social concerns that support the uplift of the poor. Funding is the main requirement for an NGO to operate efficiently. In the past, whenever a non-profit organisation (NGO) needed money, they would need to plan fundraising events or approach businesses or wealthy individuals. This approach is effective, but it can eventually become tedious. Some new sources of funding for NGO projects are emerging as investment mechanisms change. In this essay, we talk about how popular it is for NGOs to use crowdfunding as a source of fundraising. With the advancement of the internet and information technology, crowdfunding has seen tremendous growth in recent years. The main goal of this essay is to define crowdfunding and describe its various forms for NGOs in India. Evaluation of the benefits, precautions to be taken, and risk associated with crowd fundraising. Crowd fundraising may be encouraged by India's expanding economy. how well the NGOs are at luring Indian investors.
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Ramachandran, Vibhuti. "Ethnography at an Intersection: Law, Anti-Trafficking NGOs, and Prostitution in India." Law & Social Inquiry 48, no. 1 (February 2023): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2022.28.
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For a legal anthropologist interested in how different agents and forms of governance shape projects of sexual humanitarianism, the strategies that US-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use in their attempts to reframe an Indian anti-prostitution law as an anti-trafficking instrument generate broader conceptual questions. How do Indian NGOs articulate donor-driven concerns with the postcolonial socio-legal framework within which they work? What impact do they seek to have on the law, legal system, and legal actors? What, in turn, happens to formal law, which is already shaped by a complex history of legal concerns, moral panics, and NGO intervention (itself authorized by law) in this context? How do law and NGOs shape each other across anti-prostitution and anti-trafficking projects in the overlapping contexts of postcoloniality, globalization, neoliberalism, and sexual humanitarianism in India? How might one explore these intersections and relationships methodologically? I show how ethnography at the intersection of anti-prostitution law and anti-trafficking NGOs illuminates: (1) law’s imbrication in a broader, long-standing, and ever-expanding field of governmental action on prostitution; (2) how NGOs and legal actors act, in tension and in collaboration, upon the perceived “problem” of prostitution; and (3) how anti-trafficking NGOs and anti-prostitution law co-constitute each other as they shape contested meanings around prostitution.
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Sindhura, Dr K. "Civil Society in India Complimenting the Government Initiatives – An Overview." European Economic Letters (EEL) 13, no. 5 (November 26, 2023): 883–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.52783/eel.v13i5.845.
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The Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) is poorly understood, since the term employed to describe it lacks clarity. In the present article the author has examined the role of Civil Society in India complimenting the government initiatives. Lester and Anheier (1992) reviewed different ways of defining the Non-Governmental Organisation. They defined the NGO as a group of organisations which were formally established. The basic structure of the Non-Profit organisations was non-governmental, self-governed, voluntary and non-Profit activities. The three basic categories of the NGOs' roles were partners, catalysts, and implementers. NGOs typically support government efforts, though occasionally they have attempted to introduce reforms. The government relies on or supported NGOs to carry out specific tasks in various contexts, such as the nation and the State. Nearly all nations have NGOs, but their structures and standards varied depending on where they operate. The emergence of NGOs varies in each nation. The way NGOs had been operating lately has also drawn criticism. Politicians criticized NGOs' expanding influence and substantial financial resources (Lewis, 2010). NGOs are adaptable, creative, and effective at providing essential services and reducing poverty. At a lower cost than governments, they could reach isolated and poor populations. They are able to determine the genuine local needs, promote participation, and disseminate the necessary development technology. There were several opportunities for NGOs to revive their humanitarian efforts (Khandpekar, 2016). NGOs are vital to the success of development efforts in reaching the population. NGOs mostly concentrated on health care and education between the years1950 and 1960. Later, they have begun concentrating on initiatives aimed at reducing poverty and developing activities for the underprivileged. The growth of NGOs and the services they provide are directly impacted by state policy in India.
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Baviskar, B. S. "NGOs and Civil Society in India." Sociological Bulletin 50, no. 1 (March 2001): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022920010101.
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Ghose, Biswajit, S. Joplinshisha Paliar, and Liha Mena. "Does Legal Status Affect Performance of Microfinance Institutions?: Empirical Evidence from India." Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective 22, no. 3 (July 26, 2018): 316–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972262918786104.
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Transformation of non-government organizations (NGOs) to shareholder-owned microfinance institutions (MFIs) is an on-going debate in the field of microfinance research. Institutionalists support the transformation, whereas welfarists argue that NGOs are better conduits in serving poor clients. Prior studies on the impact of legal status of MFIs on their performance document mixed results. This study empirically investigates the extent to which the transformation is justified by examining the impact of legal status on the performance of MFIs in India. Using both univariate ( t-test and rank-sum test) and multivariate (random effect model) regression analysis on a dataset of 57 MFIs over the period of six years from 2008–2009 to 2013–2014, the study finds that the NGOs have better financial and sustainability performance than non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), but with respect to social performance both are indistinguishable. Further, the former has lesser costs of operation and better portfolio quality than the latter. Therefore, NGOs outperform NBFCs with respect to all dimensions of performance except for social performance where both are equally efficient. In conclusion, the transformation of NGOs to NBFCs may not improve the performance of Indian MFIs. These findings are expected to have substantial practical implications for managers of MFIs and for policymakers in framing policies for Indian MFIs.
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Giri, Ashish, Abdul Wassey, and Vishal Dogra. "Landscaping of non-governmental organizations working to improve reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child health and nutrition services in tribal India: a scoping study." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 7, no. 6 (May 27, 2020): 2173. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20202467.
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Background: Nearly 104 million (9%) of the total Indian population live in tribal areas. For the tribal population, in the recent past, many organizations initiated health programs. However, there is little understanding of the work they do in the health and nutrition area. In this scoping study, the study aimed to review NGO based models of healthcare delivery with an emphasis on reproductive, maternal health, neonatal and child health, and nutrition (RMNCHN) related interventions in tribal areas of India.Methods: A list of NGOs, in districts having 35% tribal population, was made. NGOs with functional websites, RMNCHN related interventions and registered with the Government of India online portal “NGO darpan” were selected using multistage search criteria. NGO types, their approaches for RMNCHN and intervention models were studied.Results: A total of 1503 NGOs were working on tribal health in 115 districts having >35% tribal population. Out of these, only 103 NGOs had an active health intervention and provided information freely in open public access. Only 36 NGOs had a well-structured program in reproductive, maternal, child health and nutrition area. A compendium of good practices by 12 NGOs working in RMNCHN was prepared.Conclusions: A limited number of NGOs in tribal India works on reproductive, maternal health, neonatal and child health, and nutrition issues. The health-related interventions are primarily at a small scale, community-based, lacks continuum of care and are present in districts with a lesser tribal population.
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Siwach, Raj Kumar. "Government – NGOs Relations in India : An Analysis." Indian Journal of Public Administration 59, no. 2 (April 2013): 391–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556120130214.
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Kumar, Senthil. "Empowerment or exploitation: the case of women employment system in India's textile and clothing industry." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 4, no. 8 (November 26, 2014): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-12-2013-0229.
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Subject area Governance challenges in reverse value chain. Study level/applicability Women employment system in textile and clothing industry. Case overview The textile and clothing firms, often frustrated by frequent labor issues, used an innovative employment scheme – Sumangali scheme – to employ young female workers from poor families in rural areas, aged between 18 and 25 years, as apprentices for three years who would stay in dormitories located in the vicinity of the factories, draw low wages with minimum benefits. But the scheme was criticized by labor unions and Europe- and US-based non-governmental organization (NGOs) on the grounds of alleged violation of labor rights such as freedom of association, freedom of movement, exploitative working conditions, low wages with minimum or no benefits, long working hours and abusive supervisors. Their public campaign against the alleged employment practices has put tremendous pressure on the global buyers to take steps to ameliorate the situation. In the wake of campaign by NGOs, few buyers have even terminated the relationship with the manufacturers. Others have warned action against those erring manufacturers. The actions by global buyers, NGOs against some of the women employment practices raised several questions in the minds of manufacturers. They were wondering why US- and Europe-based NGOs were up in arms to dump an employment scheme unmindful of socio-economic realities in India? Is it a clever ploy that developed nations use some private, voluntary, corporate social responsibility norms to stop companies purchasing textile and clothing products from a developing country like India on the grounds of violation of labor rights? As per the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No. 81, it is the responsibility of central/state governments to inspect and monitor labor employment practices in an industry. Then why NGOs and other private groups volunteer to become watch dogs of labor practices and launch campaigns against mills? Would it not undermine the role of government in ensuring industrial harmony? Even if NGOs' actions are justified on the grounds of moral and ethical principles, what role should they play when it comes to management–worker relationship? In the Indian context, only the government can interfere if the relationship turns sour? Should NGOs need to use a different set of ethical standards which are more relevant and contextual to the socio-economic environment in India? Expected learning outcomes To understand evolution of apparel global value chain and workforce development challenges in India; to explore the link between consumer activism and corporate social responsibility; to explore the challenge of addressing issues such as alleged human rights violation and labor exploitation by independent suppliers located in India; to explore the challenges faced by global buyers in contextualizing, operationalizing and realizing certain human rights along the supply chain located in India; and to explore sustainability challenges of women employment in textile and clothing mills in India. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Social implications Sustenance of women employment system in India's textile and clothing industry and its associated challenges.
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Pandey, Poonam, and Aviram Sharma. "NGOs, Controversies, and “Opening Up” of Regulatory Governance of Science in India." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 37, no. 4 (December 2017): 199–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0270467619861561.
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Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and scientific controversies are often the common denominators in most of the cases that have significantly shaped science and society relationships in the Global South during the past two decades. National and international NGOs and their network have often facilitated the “opening up” of regulatory governance in multiple sectors. This article draws from three cases—the bottled water controversy, the agribiotechnology debates, and the nanotechnology initiatives—and charts out the role of the NGOs and controversies in (re)defining the science-society relationship in India. The three cases illustrate how NGOs and controversies by their presence or absence at various stages of technology development shape the regulation-making exercise and the overall regulatory governance of science and technology.
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Indira, Mahendravada. "Engagement of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) with Corporate Sector in Implementing CSR Projects: Experiences from Karnataka, India." International Journal of Management and Development Studies 12, no. 02 (February 28, 2023): 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.53983/ijmds.v12n02.006.
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The introduction of mandatory CSR with the “Chatterjee Model” has provided the necessary fillip and visibility to the partnerships between the corporate sector and NGOs. The development sector in India witnessed a significant change with the introduction of mandatory CSR. CSR funds became a major source of funding for the NGOs. In this context, the present study tries to understand the nature of emerging partnerships between NGOs and the corporate sector, the motivational factors and different dimensions from the NGO perspective. It is a descriptive exploratory study based on the purposively selected NGOs in Mysore and Bangalore districts of Karnataka. The study reveals that NGOs are engaging with companies mainly for accessing financial resources. Since the companies are having control over finances, companies lead the partnerships. There is good communication between NGOs and their business partners. Transformative changes are observed in some NGOs by improving their capabilities. Suggestions are made based on the study to realize maximum collaborative social value from the engagements.
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Singhal, Parul. "NGOs-Key Drivers of Rural Development of India." Khoj:An International Peer Reviewed Journal of Geography 4, no. 1 (2017): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2455-6963.2017.00007.8.
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Handy, Femida, Meenaz Kassam, and Shree Renade. "Factors Influencing Women Entrepreneurs of NGOs in India." Nonprofit Management and Leadership 13, no. 2 (2002): 139–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nml.13203.
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Beena, Sreelekshmi, and S. Anand Lenin Vethanayagam. "Climate change communication in India: A study on climate change imageries on Instagram." Communications in Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (July 30, 2023): 20–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.21924/chss.3.1.2023.48.
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The rising accessibility of mobile phones and the proliferation of social media have revolutionized the way climate change has been communicated. Yet, the inherent invisibility and temporal complexities of climate change pose challenges when trying to communicate it on visual media platforms. This study employs visual content analysis to investigate how environmental non-government organizations (NGOs) in India address these limitations on their Instagram pages. Four environmental NGOs based in India were selected, and their thirty most recent Instagram posts related to climate change were analyzed based on imagery type, subject, context and themes. The findings revealed that these NGOs employed a diverse range of climate change imageries, often accompanied by overlaying texts, to traverse the lack of standardized visual tropes. Moreover, it is noted that a significant majority of analyzed Instagram imageries following the visual principles advocated by Climate Outreach emerged from one single NGO account, suggesting potential variations in the visual communication strategies among different NGOs.
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Balaraju, K. "Organisational Effectiveness of NGOs with Reference to Personal Characteristics of Staff." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 4, no. 2 (August 24, 2016): 339. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v4.n2.p4.
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<div><p><em>Measuring Organisation effectiveness in the perspective of NGOs staff can give more effective feedback, with this feedback NGOs can able to know the strengths and weaknesses in given dimensions. The present study attempts to analyse an organizational effectiveness of NGOs as perceived by staff. The data have been collected from ten NGOs working in Telangana, India. Select NGOs identified by using Stratified disproportionate sampling method in which 100 staff members from 10 NGOs have responded. This study uses the standardised 28 items scale i.e. NGOs Effectiveness Instrument (NEI) to measure the Organisational effectiveness developed by Swapan Garian(1993) additionally 3 items have been included in the instrument. The result indicated that organisational effectiveness of NGOs affected by NGOs staff personal characteristics namely gender, age, professional qualification, designation, place of work and work experience. The reasons have also been discussed.</em></p></div>
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Ramachandran, Vibhuti. "“These Girls Never Give Statements”: Anti-Trafficking Interventions and Victim-Witness Testimony in India." Social Sciences 11, no. 9 (September 5, 2022): 405. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11090405.
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Framing sex trafficking as primarily a law enforcement and criminal justice issue, the U.S. State Department funds global South NGOs to work with the Indian legal system to strengthen prosecutions of sex trafficking cases. Though rescuing sex workers and training them to testify against alleged traffickers is key to these interventions, and though rescued sex workers do sometimes testify, my ethnographic research and interviews with NGOs, legal actors, and sex workers in India revealed that this is a rare occurrence. This article explores the reasons behind this reported pattern, as well as the challenges faced by those who do testify. Through these findings, it critically examines the possibilities and limitations of the prosecutorial focus of U.S.-driven, NGO-mediated anti-trafficking interventions. It situates anti-trafficking interventions centered on “victim-witness testimony” in the Indian socio-legal context, demonstrating how prosecution is shaped by a range of factors, circumstances, and contingencies involving foreign-funded NGOs, the procedures, political economy and culture of the Indian legal system, individual legal actors’ motivations, and rescued sex workers’ complex subjectivities, experiences, choices, and perceptions of justice. It draws upon and contextualizes these findings to challenge prevalent assumptions about the victimhood of global South sex workers, about global South legal systems necessarily lacking resources and commitment, and about anti-trafficking solutions rooted in criminal justice incontrovertibly benefiting trafficked sex workers.
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Batliboi, Shara M., and Suhas Tambe. "Conceptualizing a Model for Improving Access to Medicines in Rural India." Journal of Health Management 16, no. 4 (November 26, 2014): 547–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972063414548556.
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India’s health care infrastructure has not kept pace with the economy’s growth. Today only 25 per cent of the Indian population has access to allopathic medicine, practiced mainly in urban areas. Rural India’s health is supported, not always adequately, by the government’s National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). This study proposes a model for distributing free medicines to villages. Medicines, a few months before their expiry dates, normally wasted, would be obtained from urban stockists/chemists. Pharmaceutical companies, by giving their consent, could partner with the model. The transfer of drugs to rural India would be via the widespread Indian postal network. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), postal employees and trained NRHM personnel would mobilize the model. Such a public–private partnership brings together members of civil society (e.g., NGOs), public sector (e.g., government agencies) and private sector (e.g., pharmaceutical companies) to fund, coordinate and drive the model, addressing the gaps in rural access to health care.
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Baruah, Bipasha. "NGOs as Intermediaries for Pro-Poor Electrification in India." Asian Journal of Social Science 43, no. 1-2 (2015): 178–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04301009.
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Neoliberalism is generally associated with certain paradigmatic regulatory experiments, such as privatisation, deregulation, trade liberalisation, financialisation, structural adjustment, welfare cutbacks and monetarist shock therapy. Prominent observers of the global economy swiftly proclaimed the “end of neoliberalism” after the global economic crisis of 2008. This paper shares the experiences of two Indian NGOs participating in a multiple-stakeholder pro-poor urban electrification programme that was designed to demonstrate a viable alternative to neoliberal models of basic service provision. By 2008, close to 100,000 homes had been electrified in the city of Ahmedabad and the programme is currently being replicated in smaller cities in Gujarat and in the neighbouring state of Rajasthan. The broader findings from this research suggest that the news of neoliberalism’s demise may be greatly exaggerated. The “alternative” practices and strategies that have emerged more recently, such as the ones documented in this article, may challenge certain aspects of neoliberal thinking even as they reconfigure and recalibrate others. Although this case study cannot in any way enable us to gauge if India is moving toward “post-neoliberalism”, it does highlight the importance of documenting and understanding sub-national scales and actors in experimenting with and testing alternatives to market-based solutions.
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Harrison, Tom. "NGOs and Personal Politics: The Relationship between NGOs and political leaders in West Bengal, India." World Development 98 (October 2017): 485–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.05.008.
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Awasthy, Richa. "SADRAG: NGOs with organizational growth challenges." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 5, no. 7 (November 17, 2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-10-2014-0244.
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Subject area Management – NGOs and organizational growth challenges. Study level/applicability Undergraduate/MBA – The case can be used in an executive MBA or management development program (especially for the development sector) to discuss the importance of design in the successful transition from one phase to another in an organization. Case overview Social and Development Research and Action Group (SADRAG) incepted in 2004 as a registered not-for-profit organization. It was started by Dr Mala Bhandari. In 2014, Dr Bhandari estimated that SADRAG would have to expand to 7-10 employees in the Noida office and 6-8 employees in the new center in North India by the end of 2014, to manage the portfolio of projects envisaged at this time. Dr Bhandari's major challenge was how to manage the organization and meet its growing needs, and she felt burdened and stressed due to multiple demands on her due to internal issues and external interactions. People looked to her for guidance and directions. Because of the growing pressure, Bhandari decided to get an assessment done for her organization's growing needs. Expected learning outcomes To appreciate the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India. To diagnose the stage of organizational growth of SADRAG using Greiner's model of organizational growth. To appreciate the issues and problems faced by NGOs as organizations. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.
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Mukherjee, Siuli. "NGOS AND TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: ISSUES AND CONCERNS." Jadavpur Journal of International Relations 16, no. 1 (June 2012): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973598412110004.
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Ghosh, Biswajit. "NGOs, Civil Society and Social Reconstruction in Contemporary India." Journal of Developing Societies 25, no. 2 (April 2009): 229–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0169796x0902500205.
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Hapsari, Karina Erdian. "NGO-Corporate Partnerships: Sustainable Development Impact for Indian Children." Insignia: Journal of International Relations 9, no. 1 (April 30, 2022): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.ins.2022.9.1.4661.
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This paper reviews the importance of NGO-corporate partnerships towards sustainable development for Indian children. Specifically, this paper analyzes CRY India and the three big corporations – Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, Bajaj Finserv – as the research subject. The NGO-corporate partnerships are crucial in the sustainable development process. Moreover, in India, the number of child labor is increasing. Thus, in order to achieve sustainable development, the child labor issue must be tackled in the right ways as children are the basis for all dimensions of sustainable development. For analysis, this paper uses an explanative approach, with secondary data. The analysis found that there are two reasons to explain their significant partnerships, as a ‘bridge’ between the actors and long-term potential value. A bridge between the actors in this paper refers to CRY India-three big corporations (Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, Bajaj Finserv) interrelations. These interrelations illustrate the needs of NGOs in funding and on the other hand, NGOs provide ‘space’ for corporate social responsibility through their programs. A ‘space’ in this paper refers to the access given by CRY India for corporates to do their CSR through CRY India’s projects as an altruistic action for both CRY and corporates. Meanwhile, the potential value leads to the benefit and impact that goes beyond partnerships, which is a better sustainable development for Indian children. In conclusion, the NGO-corporate partnerships are still needed to tackle today’s problem, and it might give an incredible impact. Though, there are some debates about their relations.
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Kumari, Upasha. "Exploring the Role of NGOs in Addressing Gender-Based Violence Against Women." Journal of Advanced Research in Women’s Studies 1, no. 1 (July 15, 2023): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/jarws.v1i1.413.
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This research explores the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in addressing Gender-based Violence (GBV) against women through a case study of NGO Shakti Shalini located in Delhi, India. There are four aspects of the NGO's operation that are examined: 'Pehchaan' - the shelter home, Crisis Intervention and Counseling services, Community Outreach Programs, and 'Kushalta Vikas Kendra' (Skill Development Centre). This research argues that NGOs can become grassroots agents of peace as they develop a sense of familiarity and closeness with the residents in the locality in which they operate. Due to this, a relationship of trust develops between the NGO and the residents, and this makes them better equipped to work on issues related to gender discrimination through direct interaction with the residents in its Community Outreach Programs. Women who came in contact with the NGO have shared their personal journeys of transformation into more confident and strong beings; this demonstrates the positive impact of NGOs in addressing the issue of violence against women. The NGO’s informed and well planned intervention not just in the aftermath of a case but also at a preventive stage has been studied. This research employs a mixed-methods approach to investigate the role of NGOs in addressing gender-based violence against women. The primary research is based on a case study of NGO Shakti Shalini in Delhi, India. Multiple methods of data collection were utilized, including participation observation, structured open-ended interviews, and unstructured interviews. The use of multiple methods allowed for data triangulation, enhancing the validity and reliability of the findings. This approach facilitated a comprehensive exploration of the research topic, providing different perspectives and increasing overall knowledge about the phenomena under investigation. In addition to primary research, secondary research in the form of literature review was conducted. A primary focus of this research is to understand how structural violence that manifests itself in uneven development affects women differently than men. It also explores ways that the government and civil society can collaborate in preventing GBV.
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., Shalli, and Anuradha . "Are ready to use therapeutic foods a solution for management of child undernutrition in India." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 8, no. 6 (May 25, 2021): 3191. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20212032.
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Childhood undernutrition is a very common problem in India. India contributes to one-fifth of global underlnutrition. Thirty- eight % of Indian children have stunting and 35.7% have low weight for age. Out of these 7.4% of under-5 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Government of India and many other Non- governmental organisations (NGOs) are working towards eliminating malnutrition. This is being done by establishment of various nutritional rehabilitation centres and malnutrition treatment centres. However, in order to achieve the goals and lead to widespread coverage, community participation is a crucial step. Malnutrition is usually an incidental finding when any care giver seeks medical care for the child due to some illness.
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Jammulamadaka, Nimruji. "Do NGOs Differ? How, with What Consequences?" Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 34, no. 4 (October 2009): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090920090402.
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NGOs are an integral part of present day organizational landscape. They are perceived to be much better than government and for-profit businesses in delivering the social welfare goods and services needed by society. Policy makers in India and the world over are showing an increasing preference for NGOs to implement various social welfare programmes. The present essay examines the rationale underlying such a preference and the relevance of the advantages attributed to NGOs. The NGO organizational form differs from public bureaucracies and for-profit businesses based on the two criteria of non-governmentness and non-profitness. Various advantages like ability to attract altruistic resources, to provide for unmet and heterogenous demand for public goods, protection against contract failure, and freerider problem are attributed to these two defining features of NGOs. They are also seen as sites that facilitate socialization in democratic participation, social innovation, and responsiveness. When examined in the socio-historical backdrop of Indian NGO sector, each of these advantages while having relevance historically is being severely compromised in recent times. The shift in voluntarism from a calling to a paid employment, institutionalization of funding sources, deployment of hard contracting and other developments in the NGO sector have dampened the perceived advantages. Altruism is more likely an involuntary subsidization and NGOs are more and more becoming mass producers of welfare goods. The focus on clear, wellplanned project proposals and documents and clearly specified procedures and budgets have reduced the elbow room available to NGOs to innovate. This loss of relevance is primarily because the organic features of the organizational form which bestowed some of the advantages on NGOs are now being traded off in favour of a more standardized, formalized form that is scalable and monitorable. Yet, because of the preferences of the institutionalized funders, non-profitness continues to remain a defining feature of NGOs even though it may not be giving the organization a competitive advantage over public bureaucracies or for-profit businesses. On the contrary, the constraint on profits, has resulted in NGOs adopting practices which expose them to criticism. These practices, while being perfectly rational for other kinds of organizations, become contortions in the case of NGOs. It is therefore necessary for us to re-examine the nature of NGOs and assess the role played by the non-profit constraint and come up with appropriate mechanisms that facilitate the provision of welfare goods/services to society by these organizations.
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Subramaniam, Nava, Monika Kansal, Dessalegn Getie Mihret, and Shekar Babu. "Outsourcing mandated corporate social responsibility in India: risks and performance." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 15, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 453–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-07-2018-0061.
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Purpose This paper aims to assess the risks and challenges of corporate social responsibility (CSR) management in the Indian-mandated CSR ecosystem from a service purchaser–supplier dualistic perspective and the role management control systems (MCS) and social capital play in managing such risks and challenges. Design/methodology/approach This study undertook a qualitative approach that involved in-depth interviews of 22 CSR directors, managers or chief executive officers from 13 central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) that had purchased CSR services and nine managers of non-government organisations (NGOs) serving as CSR suppliers. Data analysis was founded on the principal–agent and social capital theoretical perspectives. Findings A highly bureaucratic, time-pressured mandated environment poses several goal congruence and adverse selection threats to outsourced CSR project arrangements. A mix of formal and informal control mechanisms is critical for enhancing trust or bonding between service purchasers and service providers and enriching bridging capital or access to resources derived from interpersonal connections between NGOs and communities. Practical implications NGOs and CPSEs may benefit from understanding each other’s goals and culture and using appropriate formal and informal MCS for managing CSR expectations and outcomes. Originality/value Drawing on a unique mandatory CSR regime, this study offers principal–agent and social capital perspectives on CSR programme delivery, highlighting the importance of various formal and informal MCS in lowering agency costs in outsourced CSR relationships.
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Srinivasan, Vasanthi. "Understanding the Human Resource Challenges in Not-for-profit Organisations from a Lifecycle Perspective." Journal of Health Management 9, no. 2 (May 2007): 189–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097206340700900203.
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In the last two decades not-for-profit organisations in emerging countries like India have witnessed a phenomenal growth. This growth has been managed through a variety of organisational forms and structures. The complexity arises because the basic structure of the NGOs is a project organisation. Most Indian NGOs are externally funded and this funding is often provided only for a project. The projects are expected to deliver a set of activities and are necessarily short term in nature. An NGO often executes multiple projects simultaneously. As a consequence of this, the project tends to gain prominence compared to the organisation. The vital question that many NGOs have to engage with is: are we an organisation or are we a set of projects? An organisation by its very definition exists in perpetuity, while the life of a project is often specified and limited. This article will explore the challenges that NGOs face in their lifecycle of growth—evolving from a single project-based entity into a vision-led professional entity. The lifecycle view of organisations proposed by Greiner (1998) postulates that they move through five stages of development, and each stage is accompanied by a period of crisis. The article will present each of the five stages and the crises, and the resulting implications for organisations in terms of their vision, structure, strategies and human resource practices. The focus of the article will be on understanding the appropriate human resource strategies and practices that NGOs will have to engage with in the various stages of growth.
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Sandeep Mishra, Akanksha Tiwari, and Ved Trivedi. "Volunteer and NGO Matching Platform." International Research Journal on Advanced Engineering Hub (IRJAEH) 2, no. 04 (April 10, 2024): 742–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.47392/irjaeh.2024.0104.
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According to a poll conducted in 2021, during the epidemic, the number of donors in India increased by 43%. During the pandemic, Indian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) volunteered their services in every manner conceivable, and they still do. However, over the years, the proportion of volunteers has remained consistent. This demonstrates a disconnect between the general population and nonprofits as well as volunteerism. Establishing a platform that connects these volunteers with other charitable organizations would be crucial. The "Volunteer Matching Platform" project may be able to bridge this gap. This web-based platform is intended to facilitate volunteer connections between non-governmental organizations and local groups. NGOs will use this platform to promote their events to the nation's citizens. On the other hand, volunteers will be able to browse through the available opportunities, filtering based on their interests, location, and availability.
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Choudhary, Sujit Kumar. "NGOs, Education and Tribes: An Empirical Study of Jharkhand, India." Educational Quest- An International Journal of Education and Applied Social Sciences 8, no. 3 (2017): 531. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2230-7311.2017.00103.9.
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Lawrence, Pareena G., and Maria C. Brun. "NGOs and HIV/AIDS Advocacy in India: Identifying the Challenges." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 34, no. 1 (April 2011): 65–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2011.549085.
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Nanda, Nitya. "The emerging role of NGOs in rural development of India." Social Change 30, no. 3-4 (September 2000): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004908570003000404.
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Mitra, Aditi. "Feminist organizing in India: A study of women in NGOs." Women's Studies International Forum 34, no. 1 (January 2011): 66–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2010.10.003.
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Kelly, Linda, Patrick Kilby, and Nalini Kasynathan. "Impact measurement for NGOs: experiences from India and Sri Lanka." Development in Practice 14, no. 5 (August 2004): 696–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0961452042000239841.
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Ting Lee, Seow, and Mallika Hemant Desai. "Dialogic communication and media relations in non-governmental organizations." Journal of Communication Management 18, no. 1 (January 28, 2014): 80–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcom-07-2012-0059.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to clarify the conceptual building blocks of relationship building between non-governmental groups (NGOs) and news media, which is essential for the development of civil society where dialogue is a product of ongoing communication and relationships. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an online survey with a sample size of 296 NGOs from India. The data are analyzed with SPSS to test six hypotheses related to dialogic orientation, media relations, relationship quality and the NGOs’ structural characteristics. Findings – The study found that an organization's dialogic orientation has a positive impact on media relations knowledge and strategy but not on the action dimension that focusses on providing information subsidies to journalists. A stronger dialogic orientation is also associated with better organization-media relationships. A stronger engagement in media relations also has a more positive impact on the quality of organization-media relationship. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Research limitations/implications – The findings of this study are limited to a sample of NGOs from India. Future research should address more diverse samples to better understand the dynamics of media relations in NGOs, and how their patterns of media relations, use of information subsidies, culture and media choice shape news coverage and their impact in developing civil society. Originality/value – By approaching media relations from an organizational perspective to investigate media relations in the NGO sector to address an under-researched area, the study is able to draw out the significant relationships between and among three distinct and yet connected conceptual building blocks of public relations.
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Chaudhuri, Atanu, Venkatramanaiah Saddikutti, and Thim Prætorius. "iKure Techsoft: Providing Technology Enabled Affordable Health Care in Rural India." Asian Case Research Journal 22, no. 02 (December 2018): 385–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218927518500165.
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iKure Techsoft was established in 2010 with the main objective to provide affordable and high quality primary health care to the rural population in India and to build a sustainable for-profit business model. To that end, iKure’s cloud based, and patent pending, Wireless Health Incident Monitoring System (WHIMS) technology along with their hub-and-spoke operating model are central, but also essential to exploit and explore further if iKure is to scale-up. iKure provides primary health care services through three hub clinics and 28 rural health centres (RHCs). Each hub clinic employs between one and up to six medical teams (each consisting of 1 doctor, 1 nurse, 1 paramedic and 2 health workers stationed at the hub) & 1 mobile medical team (1 doctor, 1 paramedic, 2 health workers) for catering to the RHCs). Each medical team manages six RHCs. Paramount in iKure’s health care delivery model is their self-developed software called WHIMS, which is a cloud-based award-winning application that runs on low internet bandwidths. WHIMS allow for (a) centralized monitoring of key metrics such as doctor’s attendance, treatment prescribed, patient record management, pharmacy stock management, and (b) supports effective communication, integration and contact that connects RHCs with hub clinics, but also city-based multi-specialty hospitals with whom iKure has formal tie-ups. iKure, moreover, also works extensively with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Collaboration with local NGOs in the target areas helps to build trust with the rural villagers and their local knowledge and access helps to assess service demand. NGOs also provide the necessary local logistical support and basic infrastructure in the rural areas where iKure works. Moreover, collaboration, for example, with corporate organizations are central as they contribute with part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds to support iKure initiatives. At present, iKure is planning to add diagnostic services to its six hub clinics as well as expand its presence in other parts of West Bengal and other states across India. Expanding rural health care services even with the technology support of WHIMS is challenging because, for example, health is a very local issue (due to, among other things, local customs and languages) and it requires investing significant amount of time and resources to build relationship with the rural people as well as collaborators such as NGOs and corporates. The accompanying case describes iKure’s journey so far in terms of understanding: (a) the state of health care and government health care services provided in rural India, (b) the establishment and evolution of the iKure business and health care model, (c) iKure’s operations and health care delivery model including the WHIMS technology solution and hub-and-spoke set-up of operations, (d) the collaborative model which relies on NGOs and private corporates, and (e) finally iKure’s challenges related to scaling-up.
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Arora, Ajay. "Clean 'n' Green Rural India Summit 2015 (C'n'GRIs 2015)." Global Journal of Enterprise Information System 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.18311/gjeis/2015/3051.
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<p>1. To bring Farmers' Community, Corporate Sector, Entrepreneurs, Opinion Leaders, Policy makers, investors, Public Utility Services, Scientists, R&D teams, Innovators, NGOs etc. at one platform to share and showcase their climate resilient initiatives.</p><p>2. To facilitate networking between Farmers, Entrepreneurs, Corporate Sector with R&D Teams, Scientists, Investors and Financial Institutions so as the innovations and technologies in climate resilient agriculture can be replicated and commercially sustained at a larger scale.</p><p>3. To promote climate resilient initiatives of Corporate Sector, Entrepreneurs, Farmers, Financial Institutions, Public Utility Services, Scientists, NGOs etc. through Exhibition and publication of their success stories in the Summit Souvenir (to be released at C'n'GRls).</p><p>4. CnGRls 2015 also aims to celebrate Clean & Green Leaders Awards of the year 2015 to recognise and showcase clean & green initiatives and achievements of people, companies, and organizations exemplifying leadership in clean and green best practices.</p>
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Malik, Tania Delavita. "From Aversion to Affinity: India's Standpoint in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Negotiations." Global South Review 1, no. 1 (September 3, 2019): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/globalsouth.33578.
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When the issue of protecting IPRs was brought to the GATT in 1986, India claimed it as unnecessary given the costly administrative affairs in domesticating the agreement and the difference in countries’ levels of development. However, the standpoint of India altered significantly in the Doha Round. India did not only agree to adopt the TRIPS Agreement but also proposed the protection of broader aspects of IPRs, to also include GRTKF. The adoption of these significantly different viewpoints poses the puzzle that this article seeks to explain. In doing so, this article uses two-level game theory by Robert D. Putnam to analyze both domestic and international pressures that simultaneously pushed India to alter its position on IPR protection at WTO. It analyses the actions taken by governmental actors, NGOs, and business groups at both domestic and international levels. The findings demonstrate that India adopted different standpoints because of domestic demands, precisely those of the pharmaceutical companies and pro-indigenous-people NGOs, while different set of actors, especially developing countries, at international level also supported it. The supports from these actors exceeded the pressures from big pharmaceutical companies from developed countries and the developed countries themselves. By arguing this, this article thus suggests that India, as a developing country, has been able to advocate the demand of domestic interests in the face of massive international pressures.
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Waghmore, Suryakant. "Beyond Depoliticization? Caste, NGOs and Dalit Land Rights in Maharashtra, India." Development and Change 43, no. 6 (September 25, 2012): 1313–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01801.x.
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Patil, Tejaswini V. "State, Civil Society and Democracy: The Role of NGOs in India." Indian Journal of Public Administration 51, no. 4 (October 2005): 759–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556120050402.
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Dabhi, Jimmy C. "Women on the margins and the role of NGOs in India." International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management 2, no. 4 (2009): 392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijicbm.2009.024653.
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Sahoo, Sarbeswar. "Doing Development or Creating Dependency? NGOs and Civil Society in India." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 36, no. 2 (June 2013): 258–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2012.743500.
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Yesudhas, Ronald. "Towards an era of official (involuntary) accountability of NGOs in India." Development in Practice 29, no. 1 (October 2, 2018): 122–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2018.1529141.
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GEORGE, GLYNIS R. "Interpreting Gender Mainstreaming by NGOs in India: A comparative ethnographic approach." Gender, Place & Culture 14, no. 6 (December 2007): 679–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09663690701659143.
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Jalali, Rita. "International Funding of NGOs in India: Bringing the State Back In." VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 19, no. 2 (May 30, 2008): 161–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-008-9059-7.
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Alam, Ashraf, and Atasi Mohanty. "Developing ‘Happiness Engineering’ Subject for the Schools in India: Designing the Pedagogical Framework for a Sustainable Happiness Curriculum." Qubahan Academic Journal 3, no. 4 (September 28, 2023): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.48161/qaj.v3n4a145.
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The aim of this research was to develop the ‘Happiness Engineering’ subject by designing a ‘sustainable happiness curriculum’ and ‘pedagogical framework’ for the schools of India by adopting the whole school approach. Happiness Engineering subject is modelled like any other traditional school subject, e.g., History, Chemistry, or Computer Science. The researchers have prepared it by adopting the scientifically proven ‘global best practices’ exercised in different schools, colleges, and university departments across the globe in ‘sustainability education’, ‘adjectival education’, and ‘well-being education’. It has been adapted and contextualised to be implemented in Indian schools by considering the available infrastructural resources in existing Indian schools and bearing in mind the feasibility of its effective transaction. Experiences of 129 experts from India that included senior secondary school teachers, school counsellors, pedagogical scientists, learning theorists, health experts, people from NGOs, and professors of education, were used to modify and contextualize the prepared curriculum framework for the ‘Happiness Engineering’ subject to effectively cater the needs of Indian senior secondary school students.
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Teater, Kristina M. "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Defense of Religious Freedom in India." Religions 11, no. 3 (March 20, 2020): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11030143.
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The defense of religious freedom around the world is a U.S. foreign policy initiative upheld by successive administrations since the passing of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). Supported by various religious constituencies that advocate for the freedom of religion of like-minded individuals across borders, the U.S. government engages with foreign governments, human rights groups, and NGOs to preserve an individual’s right to freedom of religion or belief. Their results, however, are mixed, especially in diverse contexts where religious rights are deeply contested. This paper explores the advocacy effort in response to the Government of India’s crackdown on the inflow of foreign funds to NGOs, many of which are faith-based. Using the revocation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license of faith-based NGO Compassion International as a case study, this paper finds that U.S. involvement in defense of religious freedom meets counter-narratives. These counter-narratives include the preservation of state sovereignty, the protection of national interest, and the privileging of religious tolerance over religious freedom.
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Hayes, Niall, Lucas D. Introna, and Paul Kelly. "Institutionalizing Inequality: Calculative Practices and Regimes of Inequality in International Development." Organization Studies 39, no. 9 (June 22, 2017): 1203–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840617694067.
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This paper focuses on the institutionalization of inequality in relations between donors and NGOs in the international development sector. We argue that these relations operate within a neoliberal and competitive marketplace, which are necessarily unequal. Specifically, we focus on the apparently mundane practice of impact assessment, and consider how this is fundamental to understanding the performative enactment of institutional inequality. For our analysis we draw upon Miller and Rose’s work on governmentality and calculative practices. We develop our argument with reference to a case study of a donor driven impact assessment initiative being conducted in India. Specifically, we consider an impact assessment initiative that the donor has piloted with one of the NGOs they fund that seeks to improve the livelihoods of Indian farmers. We will argue that institutional inequality can be understood in the way the market as a social institution becomes enacted into mundane calculative practices. Calculative practices produce different kinds of knowledge and in so doing becomes a way in which subjects position themselves, or become positioned, as unequal.
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Nair, Gopakumar G. "THE JOURNEY SO FAR AND THE ROADMAP AHEAD." INDIAN DRUGS 58, no. 01 (April 30, 2021): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.53879/id.58.01.p0005.
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Dear Reader, Current Covid times are introspection times, too. When the Human Genome Project was initiated in 1990, for determining the basic pairs that make up DNA and for identifying and mapping the entire genes of the human genome, the hue and cry made by the Indian NGOs kept India out of the project, at lease officially. Approximately, 20 research institutions globally, including some from China and Russia later, participated during the 13 years of the project, which concluded in 2003. The participating countries and institutions made major contributions and consequently became beneficiaries of great progress and major strides in genomic research. While China was already participating from 1990 and Russia joined in 2000, India realised the need and importance of moving into this field at the turn of the millennium. The 100K Pathogen Genome Project launched in 2012 in USA and the 100,000 Genomes Project, also of late 2012, by UK carried forward the genome project initiatives. The countries who took early initiatives were immensely benefited through major breakthroughs. For good (or bad?), China outpaced India in genomic research and was rewarded immensely through funding from major global investors. What about India? Better late than never. The DBT in India initiated the Genome India Project in January, 2020 with the aim of collecting a moderate 10,000 human genetic samples from across India to build a reference genome. Fortunately, the vociferous NGO lobbies have probably realised their folly in opposing the genome project participation by India in the 1990s and the Indian project of 2020 will hopefully progress.
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Rawat, Kalpana, and Dinesh Rawat. "Women Empowerment through Non-Governmental Organization: A Study of Pithoragarh District of Uttarakhand." Journal of Women Empowerment and Studies, no. 42 (February 1, 2024): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jwes.42.1.9.
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The aim of this study is to examine the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) towards women empowerment in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand. The study is carried out to accomplish three objectives. First, to explore the cases of women empowerment through NGOs in context to dairy products, second is to explore the cases of women empowerment through NGOs in context to traditional products, and the last one is to analyse the experience of women after getting associated with the NGOs. The study has used both quantitative and qualitative research with descriptive research design. The study has used survey data collection technique for objective 1 & 2 and conversation data collection technique for objective 3. Convenience sampling method is used in this study. Sample size for objective 1 and 2 is 20 women each from different villages and for objective 3, sample size of 5 women associated with the NGOs is taken. The data collected through survey method was analysed with univariate analysis and the data collected through conversation was analysed through content analysis method. The analysis concluded 11 cases of women empowerment in context to dairy products and 11 cases of women empowerment in context to traditional products. In analysing the experience of women after getting associated with the NGOs, it was observed that with the help of NGO some women were motivating other women to empower themselves and to complete their education and some of the women were able to earn good amount of money. The findings of this study would help other NGOs working in other districts of Uttarakhand and other states of India in designing their training activities in a new way so that those training activities could be more effective in empowering women.