Mobilizing Women for Change: Case study of Sanjaynagar, Ahmedabad

Mobilizing Women for Change: Case study of Sanjaynagar, Ahmedabad

This paper illustrates the process of mobilization of slum dwellers around the question of their access to basic services, through the intervention of an external agency of change, in this case, MHT. It narrates the process of community development in Sanjaynagar with the assistance of MHT, gradual improvement of its physical environment, improvement in awareness and empowerment of the community in general but of the women of the community in particular, experience of women acting as agents of change in the process empowering themselves to negotiate not just the public domain but also the private domain, and role of specific individuals in triggering this local change.

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