This webpage is devoted to eminent women in the field of development. In the first instalment we bring to you Dr. Nandini Azad from India, a well-known International gender expert, trainer, researcher and pro-poor advocate. She has been committed to building larger platforms for the voices of vulnerable constituencies in the period of economic reform, especially poor marginalized and indigenous women.

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Dr. Nandini Azad


Dr. Nandini Azad, a Ph.D (1987) from Syracuse University on ‘Creating Bases of Women’s Power: Mobilization of Women’s Credit Groups and (International Development Planning and Public Policy from the Maxwell School of Citizenship) initiated her working life as a grassroots trainer/action researcher for poor women workers in 1980 with the mass social movement Working Women’s Forum, India that today has a membership of over 9,00,000 women workers in South India. (She is now on the Board of Governors of the Indian Co-operative Network for Women (ICNW) / Working Women's Forum (India), headquartered in Chennai
 
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