What role do NGOs play in the grassroots women's movement? An interview with Srilatha Batliwala from the Hauser Centre for Non-Profit Organisations, Harvard University.(Interview)(Interview)

Femnet News | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

What do you feel is the current role of NGOs in the grassroots women's movements?

I don't think that the role of NGOs is different today from what I thought it should have been 10 years ago. The first role that NGOs have is to help build grassroots women's movements where they don't exist. They have to be catalysts in creating spaces for poor women to gather, mobilise, and organise. Their first priority of NGOs should be to catalyse and enable the formation of grassroots women's organisations, We cannot speak of a "women's movement" without this kind of grassroots ...

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