Governmental and non-governmental organisations are fully convinced about the urgency of women participation in their development programmes, not only to ensure better results but to promote gender equality as well. The book is exhaustively convering theoretical, methodological and empirical dimensions of women participation in development. It is the outcome of personal experience and painstaking studies in the field of development organisations. Recent theories of organisational resources, role of women in development, modified methodology to measure people’s participation, elaborate case studies etc. are given to suit the needs of wide readership. Development practitioners and women activists will get immense insight into the factors promoting and preventing women participation in the development programmes of a developing society. In order to satisfy the needs of academicians and research scholars, innumerable case studies are reviewed, theories are given and methodology to measure participation is developed. Since the comparative performance of governmental and non-governmental organisations are studied in detail, planners and policymakers may also feel the utility of the book.
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