A women’s NGO as an incubator: promoting identity-based associations in Nepalese civil society
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447324775.003.0009
This chapter presents a case study of the unique role played by a women’s NGO in actively supporting agency, self-representation, and alliance building among marginalised women. The case study focuses on the NGO’s role as an incubator in promoting identity-based associations (IBAs) that represent and assert the rights of particular groups of marginalised and/or stigmatized women such as trafficking survivors and women working in the entertainment sector, e.g. dance bars, duet restaurants and massage parlours. The presented case demonstrates that IBAs can be empowered to address their own issues as long as NGOs and other supportive parties provide adequate input for provisional capacity building. Finally, the article underscores challenges to and prerequisites for enabling other NGOs to play such a role, to serve as a resource for other civil society organisations.
From book: Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo? Edited by Christina Schwabenland, Chris Lange, Jenny Onyx and Sachiko Nakagawa. Bristol: Policy Press, 2017, 388 pp
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