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Book Grassroots Governance Initiatives

Download or read book Grassroots Governance Initiatives written by Opart Panya and published by Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grassroots Development

Download or read book Grassroots Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamics of Grassroots Governance in India

Download or read book Dynamics of Grassroots Governance in India written by D. Sundar Ram and published by Kanishka Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. D. Sunder Ram Is A Founder And Director Of Academy Of Grassroots Studies And Research Of India (Agrasri); Secretary- General Of Rajiv Rural Development Foundation (Rrdf); And Editor Of The Grassroots Govenance Journal (Tggj) And Grama Sabha (Gs) Magazine, Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh). Prior To Joining The Academy Of Grassroots Studies And Research Of India, He Taught Political Science And Public Administration Disciplines At Sri Venkateswara University..

Book Cultivating the Grass Roots

Download or read book Cultivating the Grass Roots written by Hubert J. B. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grassroots Development Initiatives in India

Download or read book Grassroots Development Initiatives in India written by Sampat Kale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis. Their work has been instrumental in making government machinery pro-poor by implementing development programmes with greater transparency and accountability. Conscientisation of Adivasis by voluntary organisations through their educative role has resulted in the advancement of their lives and the emergence of autonomous leadership. The study concludes that the ideological base of the founders of the organisations made the Adivasis independent and self-supportive for their development from their earlier status of servitude through initiating and accomplishing the task of conscientisation. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Book Grassroots Innovation

Download or read book Grassroots Innovation written by Anil K Gupta and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moral dilemma gripped Professor Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this constant imbalance led Professor Gupta to found what would turn into a resounding social and ethical movement—the Honey Bee Network—bringing together and elevating thousands of grassroots innovators. For over two decades, Professor Gupta has travelled through rural lands unearthing innovations by the ranks—from the famed Mitti Cool refrigerator to the footbridge of Meghalaya. He insists that to fight the largest and most persistent problems of the world we must eschew expensive research labs and instead, look towards ordinary folk. Innovation—that oft-flung around word—is stripped to its core in this book. Poignant and personal, Grassroots Innovation is an important treatise from a social crusader of our time.

Book GRASSROOTS GOVERNANCE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT A Case Study in North East India

Download or read book GRASSROOTS GOVERNANCE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT A Case Study in North East India written by Dr. Nazmul Hussain Laskar and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is basically an agrarian country the two-thirds population of which lives in rural areas. The quality of national life is ultimately determined by the standard of life in village. Thus, development at the grass-root level is imperative to the overall development of the country. But over the years it is observed that rural development is difficult to be realised by the government’s initiative from above. In fact, the initiative needs to come from the bottom. Here comes the importance of the Panchayat system in general and Gaon Sabha in particular. Gaon Sabha provides an ideal forum for participation of any ordinary villager in the process of development. It is the ideal manifestation of decentralised planning by which the people at the lowest rung of our democracy may ventilate their hopes and aspirations. It ensures sustainable development and finds solutions to the problems of poverty and under development in rural India. The 73rd Amendment of the Indian Constitution, 1992 (received the assent of the President on April 20, 1993 and published in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section I, dated 20 April, 1993) for the first time created a statutory imperative for the establishment of a legally empowered Gaon Sabha. Gaon Sabha means a body of all persons registered in the electoral rolls of a village falling within the jurisdiction of a village panchayat. It is designed to ensure participation of people in the three stages of planning i.e., plan formulation, plan implementation and plan evaluation at the grass root level. The 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts have provided an opportunity for the persons registered as voters in the village to directly participate in the decision making process. Gaon Sabhas thus serve as the basis of decentralised planning and help to ensure a transparent and accountable administration through Gaon Panchayat. It monitors the functioning of the Gaon Panchayat. While the elected representatives take policy level decisions on behalf of the people, the registered voters in the village discuss and take part in the decisions relating to the development of the village. The Assam Panchayat Raj Act 1994 also empowered the Gaon Sabha to discuss, plan and formulate policies for rural development.

Book Grassroots Development Initiatives in India

Download or read book Grassroots Development Initiatives in India written by Sampat Kale and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grassroots Innovation Movements

Download or read book Grassroots Innovation Movements written by Adrian Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, policy silos, or institutional logics, these ‘grassroots innovation movements’ identify issues and questions neglected by formal science, technology and innovation organizations. Grassroots solutions arise in unconventional settings through unusual combinations of people, ideas and tools. This book examines six diverse grassroots innovation movements in India, South America and Europe, situating them in their particular dynamic historical contexts. Analysis explains why each movement frames innovation and development differently, resulting in a variety of strategies. The book explores the spaces where each of these movements have grown, or attempted to do so. It critically examines the pathways they have developed for grassroots innovation and the challenges and limitations confronting their approaches. With mounting pressure for social justice in an increasingly unequal world, policy makers are exploring how to foster more inclusive innovation. In this context grassroots experiences take on added significance. This book provides timely and relevant ideas, analysis and recommendations for activists, policy-makers, students and scholars interested in encounters between innovation, development and social movements.

Book Entrepreneurial Marketing

Download or read book Entrepreneurial Marketing written by Robert D. Hisrich and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One key for success for an entrepreneur is to obtain sales (revenue) and profits as quickly as possible upon launching the venture. Entrepreneurial Marketing focuses on this and the essential elements of success in order to achieve these needed sales and revenues and then grow the company. The authors build a comprehensive, state-of-the-art picture of entrepreneurial marketing issues, providing major theoretical and empirical evidence that offers a clear, concise view of the field.Through an international approach that combines both theoretical and empirical knowledge on entrepreneurship and marketing, this book informs and enhances an entrepreneurs' creativity, their ability to bring innovations to the market and their willingness to face risk and change the world. Key components addressed include: identifying and selecting the market, determining the consumer needs cost-effectively, executing the basic elements of the marketing mix (product, price, distribution, and promotion) and competing successfully in the domestic and global markets by implementing a sound marketing plan. Numerous illustrative examples bring the content to life. The mix of theoretical content, examples, empirical analyses and case studies, make this book an excellent resource for students, professors, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers all over the world.

Book Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management

Download or read book Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management written by Rahman, Hakikur and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, digital technologies have permeated daily routines, whether at school, at work, or during personal engagements. Stakeholders in education are promoting innovative pedagogical practices, the business sector is utilizing updated processes. Even the public is improving their lifestyles by utilizing innovative technology. In a knowledge construction setting, technology becomes a tool to assist the user to access information, communicate information, and collaborate with others towards human development and knowledge management. In this context, ubiquitous computing has emerged to support humans in their daily life activities in a personal, unattended, and remote manner. Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management serves as an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the widespread incorporation of technological innovations around the globe. It examines how the application of ubiquitous computing technologies affects various aspects of human lives, specifically in human development and knowledge management. The chapters demonstrate how these ubiquitous technologies, networks, and associated systems have proliferated and have woven themselves into the very framework of everyday life. It covers categorized investigations ranging from e-governance, knowledge management, ICTs, public services, innovation, and ethics. This book is essential for ICT specialists, technologists, teachers, instructional designers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the latest technologies and how they are impacting human development and knowledge management across different disciplines.

Book Demanding Good Governance

Download or read book Demanding Good Governance written by Mary McNeil and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accountability is the cornerstone of good governance. Unless public officials can be held to account, then critical benefits associated with good governance, such as social justice, poverty reduction and development remain elusive. The impacts of non-responsive and unaccountable governance are perhaps most harshly felt by the citizens of Africa, where corruption and governance failures are broadly acknowledged as a principal obstacle to the achievement Over the past decade, a range of social accountability practices such as participatory budgeting, independent budget analysis, participatory monitoring of public expenditure and citizen evaluation of public services have been experimented with in many Africa countries. Their outcomes and lessons have, thus far, received little attend and documentation. This volume aims to make a contribution towards filling this gap by describing and analyzing a selection of social accountability initiatives from seven Sub-Saharan countries.

Book Thinking Small

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  • Author : Daniel Immerwahr
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-05
  • ISBN : 0674745442
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Thinking Small written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians Co-Winner of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award Thinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. “Unfortunately, far from eliminating deprivation and attacking the social status quo, bottom-up community development projects often reinforced them...This is a history with real stakes. If that prior campaign’s record is as checkered as Thinking Small argues, then its intellectual descendants must do some serious rethinking... How might those in twenty-first-century development and anti-poverty work forge a better path? They can start by reading Thinking Small.” —Merlin Chowkwanyun, Boston Review “As the historian Daniel Immerwahr demonstrates brilliantly in Thinking Small, the history of development has seen constant experimentation with community-based and participatory approaches to economic and social improvement...Immerwahr’s account of these failures should give pause to those who insist that going small is always better than going big.” —Jamie Martin, The Nation

Book Inventing Local Democracy

Download or read book Inventing Local Democracy written by Rebecca Abers and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abers (political science, Center for Public Policy Research, U. of Brasília, Brazil) provides a close study of innovative city government in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Led by the Workers' Party, the city implemented a participatory budget program in which residents meet in their neighborhoods to determine budget priorities. Taking place in a city long dominated by patronage politics and elite rule, the story is both a sociopolitical study of the impact that state- sponsored participatory forums can have on civil society and a contribution to the theory and practical possibilities of participatory democracy.--

Book Grassroots Global Governance

Download or read book Grassroots Global Governance written by Craig M. Kauffman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To address global problems like climate change, transnational networks promote "best practices" locally around the world. Grassroots Global Governance explains the variations in their success levels and why implementing these "global ideas" locally causes them to evolve at the international level. Ultimately, the book demonstrates how global governance is partially constructed at the grassroots.

Book Rich People s Movements

Download or read book Rich People s Movements written by Isaac William Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do protesters sometimes take to the streets to demand lower taxes on the rich? In this urgently relevant study, sociologist Isaac William Martin examines how these protesters used tactics that they learned in movements of the poor and powerless-and sometimes won big.

Book Women in War and Peace

Download or read book Women in War and Peace written by Donna Ramsey Marshall and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sept. 14, 1999, the U.S. Institute of Peace¿s Research & Studies Program convened a seminar entitled ¿Perspectives on Grassroots Peacebuilding: The Roles of Women in War & Peace,¿ which drew together more than 60 representatives of the policy community, academia, & NGOs. This report draws on presentations & comments made at the seminar & specifically examines the role of women in addressing the issues of conflict resolution & peacebuilding. Contents: Introduction: Women in War & Peace; Women in Conflict: Colombia, Israel & Palestine, & Somalia; Actions to Empower Women¿s Movements; Women in Peace: South Africa, Latin America, & Northern Ireland; & Conclusions.