Bijal Brahmbhatt, Renana Jhabvala

Jhabvala, R: City-Makers (eBook, ePUB)

How Women are Building a Sustainable Future for Urban India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'We are from different settlements but we belong to one city.' - Rekha, Vikasini from Ahmedabad Living on the margins of India's urban sprawls, the poor women of the nation's slums bear the manifold burdens of housework, childcare and earning a livelihood. The Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT) was established in 1994 with the aim of mobilizing and empowering these urban poor women, and supporting their access to adequate housing. Twenty-five years on, the MHT has changed the lives of over 1.7 million individuals, reaching more than 3,30,000 households and skilling over 17,000 women. The City-Makers tells the story of this incredible journey - a journey of transformation that has the potential to one day change the cities in which we live. The accounts of the innumerable courageous women workers who have taken steps - individually and collectively - to bring about change at the personal and community levels speak of the struggles, the sense of solidarity and the triumph they experience as they build their homes with their own hands; bargain with government and private agencies for access to water, sanitation, affordable energy and land rights; find solutions to make their homes climate-resilient; and participate in city-level planning and decision-making processes. Together, the success stories of Meena, Mumtaz, Parul, and others like them, reflect the central message of the MHT's mission: that women living in urban informal settlements must be taken along if India wishes to make its cities participatory, inclusive and sustainable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette India
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789389253740
• Artikelnr.: 60041708

Autorenporträt

Bijal Brahmbhatt is director, Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (since 2009), overseeing MHT's operations across eight states and 36 cities in India. A civil engineer by education, she moved to the social sector in 1997 after a short stint at a private construction company. With a seat on several government advisory committees, Bijal advocates for equitable housing rights of the urban poor, alternative pro-poor building norms and development regulations appropriate for the provision of affordable housing. She is adviser to Shri Baroda Mahila Sewa Nagrik Dhiran Sahkari Mandli, Baroda, and Shri Surat Mahila Sewa Nagrik Dhiran Sahkari Mandli, Surat, credit cooperatives of poor women; adviser to DBS Housing Pvt. Ltd, a real estate company; and director, Awass SEWA Pvt. Ltd, a poor women's construction company. Bijal was awarded the SELCO Surya-Mitra in 2019 by the SELCO Foundation for her work on sustainable energy, and was felicitated by Women Change Makers, Switzerland, in 2013 for her work on women's empowerment. She is a 2019 finalist for the Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) India Award, established by the Schwab Foundation and the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation. Her recent publications include 'What Getting Land Title Really Means: An "Anti-Commons" in Ahmedabad, India?' (co-author, World Bank, 2014) and 'Emulating Mortgages for the Benefit of the Poor: Financial Innovations by Mahila Housing SEWA Trust' (co-author, WIEGO, 2014).