The emerging role of NGOs in rural development of India

Nanda, Nitya

doi:10.1177/004908570003000404

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“…NGOs play an important role in bridging the gaps in India's policy implementation, acting as enablers at the grassroots level, playing a role in participative governance and mobilizing public opinion and supporting attitudinal and behavioural change (Baviskar, 2001; Bhaker, 2014; Nanda, 2000; Rai, 2017; The Indian Express, 2020). Various NGOs have come to the fore in addressing the status of children in India; notable among them are Child Rights And You, Pratham Education Foundation, Katha, Uday Foundation, Smile Foundation, Haq Center for Child Rights, Arpan, Tulir, Udayan Care and Humana People To People India, among others.…”

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Creative and flexible deployment of systems methodologies for child rights and child protection through Holistic Flexibility

Chowdhury,

Gregory,

Queah

2023

Syst Res Behav Sci

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Holistic Flexibility is a conceptual lens in systems thinking that enables intellectual, emotional and tactical elasticity in systems practice. This paper will demonstrate Holistic Flexibility in practice in an NGO setting to design and implement a programme to address the widening gap between government policy and its implementation. Critical Systems Heuristics was chosen as the preferred methodology, strengthened with two methods from two other systems methodologies-CATWOE (a mnemonic for Customers, Actors, Transformation, Worldview, Owners, Environment) from Soft Systems Methodology and issues (assumption) rating method from Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing. Following a participative programme design exercise, two phases were identified. The strategy, implementation and impact of phase 1, which covered work undertaken between the period 2018 and 2020, is provided. Phase 2 was under consideration at the time of writing this paper.

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confidence: 99%