Relevance of Gandhian Philosophy for People's Empowerment through Civil Society Organizations

Abstract

The technological advancement along with the process of liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) has resulted for development. On other side, this development is not holistic and not uniform for all the people as well as the geography of our nation. Day by day, the negative impact of this development is becoming increasing with severe vulnerability with hazards&disasters as the process is mostly top-down approach rather than bottom-up indicating the poor participation of the stakeholders with less and less opportunities. Under these circumstances, civil society organizations (CSOs) which still follow the Gandhian philosophy do play significant role in reaching the targeted groups with need based strategies&interventions with sustainable development. The model of SCCRATDSQR has been designed and adopted with civil society organizations which support the relevance of Gandhian philosophy in empowering the people with sustainable development and quality of life (QOL). The model is simple and flexible for understanding and implementing while working for the empowerment of the people through CSOs.