Non-Governmental Organizations and Women Empowerment in Karnataka

Author: Dr. Sarah Navqi Shirin

ISBN: 978-9393082718

Page Count: 272

Binding: Hardbound

Language: English

About the Book:
This book, based on a study conducted on some NGOs working in the field of women empowerment in Karnataka, seeks to examine the challenge of multiple accountabilities faced by these NGOs. Analyzing how NGO advocacy programmes in the area of women empowerment can be monitored and evaluated, it studies the mechanisms utilized by women empowerment NGOs to manage their multiple accountabilities – to its values, constituency, donors and the State. Further taking a close look at whether women empowerment NGOs have seen any significant decline in its accountability to values over a period of time, it attempts to study whether accountability of NGOs to the State through cumbersome procedures and monitoring mechanisms is adversely affecting their work on empowerment. Finally, it evaluates the mechanisms by which women empowerment NGOs are strengthening their ‘downward’ accountability to their constituencies.