Recasting Citizenship for Development - File UPI

392 Women’s Livelihood Rights
Currently a Member of the Goa State Commission for Women, she has
been involved with women’s issues for over two decades as a social worker,
academic and activist and tries to blend these in her research, writing,
training, and action projects related to women and children in Goa. She
has researched aspects of women’s health, and the impact of development
and violence against women; her doctoral research is on the way women
organise for change. She has edited Women’s Health in Goa: A Holistic
Approach.
Nitya S. Ghotge is a practising veterinarian with a degree in Veterinary
Science and Animal Husbandry (1985), and a Masters in Veterinary Surgery
(1989). She is Co-Director of ANTHRA, which she started with Sagari
R. Ramdas in 1992. ANTHRA works on indigenous knowledge systems,
gender-sensitive and sustainable alternatives in livestock development,
and also trains para-veterinarians, publishes educational material,
and undertakes advocacy on key policy issues on biodiversity and alternative
veterinary medicine. She is widely published and has also authored
the book Livestock and Livelihoods: The Indian Context.
M. Indira, now on the faculty of the Department of Economics and Cooperation,
University of Mysore, was earlier also Director of the Women’s
Studies Centre. She has 20 years of teaching and research experience, and
a Ph.D. from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
She has researched and written extensively on aspects of agriculture and
natural resources, especially related to Karnataka. Her current research
interests are women in development, development approaches, decentralised
governance, institutions and participatory methods.
Sandeep Joshi, Senior Fellow at the Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social
Science Research, Ujjain, is also Nodal Director, CHILDLINE, Ujjain. He
is an Associate Editor of the Madhya Pradesh Journal of Social Sciences,
and is on the editorial board of the Madhya Pradesh Samajik Vigyan
Anusandhan Journal. His research areas include rural development,
education, decentralised governance and poverty. He has authored IRDP
and Poverty Alleviation (1999); Panchayat Raj Institutions and Poverty
Alleviation (2000); has edited Aspects of Social Justice in India (2004); and
has contributed several articles to academic journals.
Depinder Kapur has worked as a development professional in NGOs
since 1988. A postgraduate from the Institute of Rural Management,