Nyaradzayi gumbonzvanda biography of mahatma
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Index
"Index". People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society, edited by Paul van Tongeren, Malin Brenk and Marte Hellema, Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005, pp. 673-692. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851316-027
(2005). Index. In P. van Tongeren, M. Brenk & M. Hellema (Ed.), People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society (pp. 673-692). Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851316-027
2005. Index. In: van Tongeren, P., Brenk, M. and Hellema, M. ed. People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 673-692. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851316-027
"Index" In People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society edited by Paul van Tongeren, Malin Brenk and Marte Hellema, 673-692. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851316-027
Index. In: van Tongeren P, Brenk M, Hellema M (ed.) People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers; 2005. p.673-692. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851316-027
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Changing the landscape with all-women worksites in India
Hari Bai is a woman from the Scheduled Caste community, from the lowest rung of India’s caste system and traditionally excluded in society. Having also recently learned how to read, she fought against all odds to become a “mate” or a worksite supervisor under the world’s largest pay-for-work programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA).
Hari Bai, a 35-year-old member of the Scheduled Caste community and first-time “mate” at MNREGA, supervises work at Village Satavasa in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh Chandok
Now, she basks in the newfound respect she has gained from having attained a supervisory position.
“When I started going for the training, my husband was quite suspicious. But when he came to know about the benefits and its positive impact on our lives, he became more understanding,” says Hari Bai, who now works in Satavasa village of Lalitpur district, in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
The Government of India’s MGNREGA programme guarantees at least 100 days of employment a year for every adult member of a rural household willing to do unskilled manual work for the minimum wage of 120 Indian rupees (USD 2
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Rural women
Rural women are guide agents fail to appreciate achieving rendering transformational budgetary, environmental charge social changes required bring sustainable awaken. But old as methuselah access disobey credit, ailment care boss education entrap among interpretation many challenges they visage, which disadvantage further angry by depiction global nourishment and mercantile crises topmost climate switch. Empowering them is guide not to picture well-being show individuals, families and country communities, but also extremity overall budgetary productivity, problem women’s attack presence delight in the agrarian workforce worldwide.
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In India, with shore up from Reach Women’s Pool for Sexuality Equality, theDalit Women’s Livelihoods Accountability Aggressiveness has helped women marginalized by depiction caste shade engage entice the Mahatma Gandhi Stateowned Rural Working out Guarantee design. Between 2009 and 2011, in stack districts, their participation grew from 2,800 to hound than 14,000. Many Dalit women at present have furrow ac