Kamala Bhasin
KAMLA BHASIN
Kamla Bhasin was born in 1946 and grew up in Rajasthan, India. She received a BA at Maharani's College in Jaipur and an MA in Economics at Rajasthan University. In addition, she studied Sociology of Development for four semesters at Muenster University in West Germany.
From April 1970 to March 1971 Bhasin was a Lecturer in the Orientation Centre of the German Foundation for Developing Countries in Bad Honnef, West Germany. Then from 1972-1975 she was the Development Secretary of Seva Mandir in Udaipur, India. Seva Mandir is a non-government organization working with the poorer segments of the population in Rajasthan, India. While with Seva Mandir, Bhasin worked directly with the rural poor (men & women) to organize agricultural, economic and educational activities for their upliftment. The main emphasis was on mobilising people for their own development. They started developing strategies for participatory development, popular education, women's empowerment, etc. In addition, they developed close contacts with other NGOs in India and became part of the NGO movement. During these four years Bhasin wrote extensively for newspapers on the rural realities and the impact of development programmes and policies on the rural poor.
From Oct.1975 to August 1979, Bhasin was the FFHC/AD Programme Officer in FAO-RAPA Bangkok, in charge of a Regional Project, "Role and Training of Change Agents," which supported NGO initiatives. Her main work during these four years was to: 1. organize regional and national workshops, participatory training programmes for field level and workers and decision makers mainly from non-governme nt organizations, people's organisations, women's groups on issues related to poverty, development, environment, gender etc., 2. identify and create linkages between innovative innovative NGOs and their field level programmes in Asia and the Pacific. 3. to write about FFHC/AD's work in the field of training for
Kamla Bhasin was born in 1946 and grew up in Rajasthan, India. She received a BA at Maharani's College in Jaipur and an MA in Economics at Rajasthan University. In addition, she studied Sociology of Development for four semesters at Muenster University in West Germany.
From April 1970 to March 1971 Bhasin was a Lecturer in the Orientation Centre of the German Foundation for Developing Countries in Bad Honnef, West Germany. Then from 1972-1975 she was the Development Secretary of Seva Mandir in Udaipur, India. Seva Mandir is a non-government organization working with the poorer segments of the population in Rajasthan, India. While with Seva Mandir, Bhasin worked directly with the rural poor (men & women) to organize agricultural, economic and educational activities for their upliftment. The main emphasis was on mobilising people for their own development. They started developing strategies for participatory development, popular education, women's empowerment, etc. In addition, they developed close contacts with other NGOs in India and became part of the NGO movement. During these four years Bhasin wrote extensively for newspapers on the rural realities and the impact of development programmes and policies on the rural poor.
From Oct.1975 to August 1979, Bhasin was the FFHC/AD Programme Officer in FAO-RAPA Bangkok, in charge of a Regional Project, "Role and Training of Change Agents," which supported NGO initiatives. Her main work during these four years was to: 1. organize regional and national workshops, participatory training programmes for field level and workers and decision makers mainly from non-governme nt organizations, people's organisations, women's groups on issues related to poverty, development, environment, gender etc., 2. identify and create linkages between innovative innovative NGOs and their field level programmes in Asia and the Pacific. 3. to write about FFHC/AD's work in the field of training for