Community Leaders and Decentralised Governance: Tales from the SEWA Field
dc.contributor.author | Sen, Paromita | |
dc.contributor.author | Haque, Aiman | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-23T16:06:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-23T16:06:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-23 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sen, P. and Haque, A. (2021) 'Community Leaders and Decentralised Governance: Tales from the SEWA Field' in Taylor, P. and McCarthy, M. (Eds) Building a Better World: The Crisis and Opportunity of Covid-19, IDS Bulletin 52.1, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16507 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in India resulted in women informal economy workers being out of jobs and with no social security blanket to rely on. Women community leaders therefore worked with the state to reach out to the most vulnerable and marginalised populations. This resulted in decentralised units where decisions are made at the community level in a collective fashion including critical and diverse stakeholders, in collaboration with state authorities. This model works best where locally developed networks with high levels of community trust exist that enable community leaders to reach communities in distress quickly and effectively, ensuring that relief and aid is delivered to those who need it the most. Additionally, women coming together to advocate for themselves as women workers allows for us to build back better with a key focus on marginal populations such as women at the bottom of the pyramid. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Irish Aid | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;52.1 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, any modifications or adaptations are indicated, and the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Governance | en |
dc.subject | Health | en |
dc.title | Community Leaders and Decentralised Governance: Tales from the SEWA Field | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Directorate and Development Office | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2021.106 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-03-23 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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