Building Women's Capacities: Interventions in Gender Transformation

Abstract

Foreword - Maria Verhoeven Introduction - Ranjani K Murthy PART ONE: ISSUE-SPECIFIC GENDER TRAINING To Be or Not to Be - Sabala and Kranti A Self-Help Experience in Women's Reproductive Health Transformative Training - Nitya Rao An Experiment in Pudukottai Microenterprise Promotion for Women in a Traditional, Male-Controlled Sector - Frances Sinha The Silk Industry Project in Karnataka and West Bengal 'God Sits on Our Throat and Tells Us to Discriminate against Girls' - Adithi An Experience with Gender Sensitiation of Inland Men and Women Fishworkers Empowering Women in Gram Panchayats through Training - F Stephen Grassroots Training through Satellite Technology - Ammu Joseph PART TWO: EXISTENTIAL GENDER TRAINING Windows to the Outside World - Asmita Experiences in Gender Training in Hyderabad Slums Enhancing the Negotiating Power of Women within Families through Process Work - R Mohanraj and Lakshmi Raman Under the Guise of a Tailoring Programme - A Gandhimathi DAWN's Experience in Gender Sensitization of Adolescent Girls PART THREE: NON-TRAINING AND INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING OF WOMEN Being True to Feminism - B K Anitha and Anita Gurumurthy The Methodology of the Status of Rural Women in Karnataka Mainstreaming Gender in Participatory Technology Development - Edith van Walsum and Rama Devi Kolli Dynamics between Farmers Groups, NGOs and a Support Organization in South India Empowerment from Below - Prema Gopalan Self-Education and Empowerment of Grassroots Women's Collectives (Up)Lifting Water and Women or Lip Service Only? - Nelleke van der Vleuten The Gender Dimension of a Lift Irrigation Programme Gender, Organizations and Change - Shobhita Rajagopal and Kanchan Mathur Lessons from Gender Training of Community-Level Education Workers 'Being There Was an Important Accident' - Shubha Chacko Rethinking Assumptions Based on Grassroots Experiences PART FIVE: LOOKING AHEAD Lessons on Capacity Building for Women's Empowerment - Ranjani K Murthy