Paper III Development Programmes and Gender Component

Unit 1:
Rural Development Schemes and Participation of Women

• Gender Budgeting of the Development Programmes at Panchayat level
• Schemes for Single Women ( Destitute/ Widow and Unmarried Women)
• Housing and Land Rights
• Women and Forest
• Women and Water

Unit 2:
Health Programmes and Women

• Reproductive Health Programmes
• Population Policy, Family Planning and Women’s Health
• ICDS and Other Health Programmes
• Malnutrition, Mental Maternal Mortality,
• HIV- AID and Women

Unit 3:
Economic Empowerment of Women

• Employment, Entrepreneurship and New Horizons- Case of SEVA and Amul
• Credit and Microfinance: Case of Bangladesh Grameen Bank, Kagad Kach- Patra Sanghatan
• Women, Agriculture and New Technology

Unit 4:
Empowering Programmes and Schemes

• MNREGS: Right to Work
• Right to Food: PDS, Annapurna and Antyodaya Schemes
• Right to Information
• Protection from Atrocities against SC and ST

Unit 5:
Alternative Development Paradigm and Women

• Viewing Development from the lens of Gender Justice
• Environment Conservation and Women
• Women, Media and Development
• Bio-Diversity and Women
• Revival of Traditional Methods of Water Conservation
• Violence of Green Revolution: A Case For Organic Farming and Women

References:
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Campable-Rowan, Dorienne. 1999. Development with Women. Jaipur: Rawat Publications.

Kabeer, Naila. 1994. Reverce Realities: Hierarchies in Development Thought. London:Verso.

Batliwala S. 1983. Empowerment of Women in South Asia: Concept and Practices. New Delhi: Asian – South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education.

Boserup, Esther. 1970. Women’s Role in Economic Development. New York: St. Martins Press.

Mooser, Carolineo. 1993. Gender Planning & Development: Theory, Practice & Training. London: Routledge.

Sen, G. and Sen C. 1985 ‘Women’s Domestic Work and Economic Activity: Results from the National Sample Survey’. E.P.W. Vol. XX. April.

Mohanti, Manoranjan. 1995. ‘On the Concept of Empowerment’, Economic and Political Weekly, 17 June, pp. 1434-36.

Chaudhari, Maitrayee. 1993. ‘Models of Development and Images of Women’ in Anand Kumar (edited) Nation Building in India. pp. 124-38. New Delhi: Radiant.