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On 2011-10-24 17:55:44
Publications:
Common Land & Women’s Rights, working paper (2011), WGWLO
This article is educational
in nature that could be used for multiple purpose, such as spreading awareness,
articulating women’s rights over private and public land, drawing lessons from
work experience and reflect, could be use for consultation and advocacy
material and also to reflect upon the given issue related to land for strategic
intervention. It covers mainly four issues: first, understanding ‘common land’
as a category and its sub-categories as part of common property resources (CPR)
and especially with reference to use of land; the second section is about land
system in India as continuation of colonialism and need to revisit land reform;
the third section focuses on articulating women’s perspective for land rights
and which theoretical frameworks could be applied. The fourth section is in a
way a compilation of several rounds of consultations and debates with bureaucrats,
panchayati raj elected members and talati (village revenue secretary cum
administrative personnel), social activists and community leaders, and social
taken for ensuring women’s rights over common land.
On 2011-11-14 09:27:51
Publications:
Concept note on “Livelihood Needs of Muslims in Gujarat”
This note is
essentially prepared with livelihood concerns and therefore the framework is:
situation of the group with macro data; vulnerability of the group; learning
from development and livelihood initiatives by the government – review of the
existing schemes or programmes and outcomes; identifying livelihood
opportunities and supportive data.
Dr. Varsha Ganguly
Frontiers.tk
