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This third issue of Voice for Change is focused on issues that thousands of sewerage workers in India face on a daily basis. They enter sewers to clean them manually with minimal safety equipment.  They face instability because of the contractual nature of the work along with poor pay and benefits as well as general apathy from the State.  Their voices amplify various issues ranging from discriminations of caste to the undignified manner in which they are treated, from the hazardous nature of their work to indifference to their plight, and culminate in a a series of demands.

This fourth issue of the Voice for Change series is focused on children and their understanding of safe spaces, and their aspirations for each of those spaces such as water, sanitation, housing, open spaces, power and road and transport.  It is the result of a series of engagements with these groups and attempts to amplify voices of these communities on issues underlying these questions.

This report is based on a participatory research that involved the following stages: community participants facilitated scripting a participatory video and producing a film; collecting and collating case stories of CityMakers facing different problems and their views on the issues; using participatory tools, facilitating discussion with community participants to cull out different arguments that the analysis needs to contain; and presenting a draft report to community participants for their concluding remarks.  Also appended to this report is a participatory video, which was created by memb

This first issue in the Voice for Change series is focused on members of the transgender, sex worker and homosexual communities who are often left out of the development processes because of the stigma attached to their identities.  It takes the reader through a series of narratives that are often unheard by those that frame policies and implement programmes. Why do they face discrimination? How do they cope with it?

These Plans profile the tsunami-affected village, its political economy and the post-tsunami realities, aspirations and challenges of the communities. They present a community-led pre-tsunami social map, in order to establish public documents, detailing the property ownership that existed before the tsunami.

These Plans profile the tsunami-affected village, its political economy and the post-tsunami realities, aspirations and challenges of the communities. They present a community-led pre-tsunami social map, in order to establish a public documents detailing the property ownership that existed before the tsunami.

This small booklet is a collection of satirical cartoons dealing with some of the misuses and abuses of PRA. The central character of the book is an unnamed local villager through whose eyes we see these situations. It is intended to facilitate self-reflection for development workers and as training material for PRA trainers. The cartoons deal with a range of issues concerning the misuse of PRA as a field tool. These cartoons could be used for discussion and are easily understandable. They are simple but convey some important messages.

This small booklet is a collection of satirical cartoons dealing with some of the misuses and abuses of PRA. The central character of the book is an unnamed local villager through whose eyes we see these situations. It is intended to facilitate self-reflection for development workers and as training material for PRA trainers. The cartoons deal with a range of issues concerning the misuse of PRA as a field tool. These cartoons could be used for discussion and are easily understandable. They are simple but aim to convey some important messages.