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Innovating for change: women's education for empowerment: an analysis of the Mahila Samakhaya Programme in Banda District

This paper presents a case study of a women's program, Mahila Samakhaya, currently underway in the Banda District in India. The program was initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 1989 to further develop and support non-governmental organisations working with women in education. The aim was to facilitate a change process through which rural women in poverty could become active in controlling their lives and their environment. The paper describes the evolution, sustainability and continuous improvement over the past five years of the innovations that have opened up new opportunities for the women in this area. The innovations were developed in the areas of transfer of technical skills and the introduction and maintenance of literacy among young women.

This paper presents a case study of a women's program, Mahila Samakhaya, currently underway in the Banda District in India. ...  Show Full Abstract  

Corporate authors: India. Nirantar - A Centre for Women and Education
Date: 1997
Geographic subjects: Asia; India
Resource type: Article
Subjects: Literacy; Adult and community education; Finance;
Innovation; Research; Skills and knowledge; Policy; Disadvantaged; Teaching and learning; Gender; Demographics show more

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Making a difference: innovations in adult education

This document contains a series of case studies and contributions prepared as part of an international research project on 'Innovations in Adult Education' (INNAE). The project, managed by the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) and the German Foundation for International Development (DSE), examined how adult educators and facilitators have evolved innovative educational practice and programs in order to better serve the needs of their clients. The project enabled the participants to develop a common frame of reference for the analysis of educational innovations and this process is detailed in the introduction to the book: Common learning - collective research: innovating adult education / Werner Mauch and Uta Papen. The case studies are: Innovating for change: women's education for empowerment: an analysis of the Mahila Samakhya programme in Banda District (India) / Nirantar - A Centre for Women and Education; Graduate Resource Advancement (GREAT): non-formal exposure of youth to rural development (Sri Lanka) / S. B. Ekanayake; Question de competences: the competence issue: a tool for women: working together on links between past and future (Canada) / Rachel Belisle; And the hammock lingers on: whither theatre-for-development (Cameroon) / Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh; The community health workers' school of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (Palestine) / Jihad Mash'al; Kenyan experience on training adult education teachers through distance education (Kenya) / Khalfan A. Mazrui; CAFAM's continuing adult education program (CAFAED): a human development project (Colombia) / Maria Auxiliadora Consuegra G.; 'We got it together...and?': a project for couples (Chile) / Manuel Bastias Urra and B. Rosa Saavedra Diaz; The fisherfolk environmental education project: a timely innovation in popular environmental education (Philippines) / M. Linnea Villarosa-Tanchuling. The section on transversal issue includes: Change and integration / S. B. Ekanayake, Werner Mauch and Catherine Alum Odora-Hoppers; Participation and partnership, sustainability and transferability / Rachel Belisle, Dipta Bhog and Ingrid Jung; The needs issue / Maria Consuegra, Khalfan Mazrui and Josef Muller; Conversation on empowerment / Rosa Saavedra, Miryan Zuniga, Maria Linnea (Ging) Tanchuling and Uta Papen. Selected chapters are indexed from TD/INT 61.187 to TD/INT 61.191.

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Authors: Mauch, Werner; Papen, Uta
Date: 1997
Geographic subjects: Middle East; North America; Asia;
South America; Africa; Palestine; Chile; Philippines; Colombia; Kenya; Canada; Cameroon; India; Sri Lanka show more

Resource type: Book
Subjects: Innovation; Adult and community education; Research;
Teaching and learning show more

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