reappeared in some of the interview transcripts and is further explored later in the discussion of accounts of economic empowerment in Chapter Seven. activists’ Further to this, the Alceste analysis identified the NGOs that were most associated with each class identified in the West Bengal and London reports. This enabled the selection of NGOs across the different themes for the second phase of the project. The following two chapters focus on analysing the research materials from both the Alceste reports and the transcripts of interviews with activists. The interview questions were selected to inform the research question and were based on the outcome of the literature review and the analysis of vision and mission statements. Interviewees were asked the following questions and responses were probed according to the specific context: Could you describe what you see as being the main work of (NGO name)? You have a website which has a section describing your vision and mission statement priorities. How did your NGO decide what these should be? Who is your website aimed at? Are any of your interventions particularly targeted at women? Is so, (or if not), why? When you plan your programmes, how much account do you take of the roles that women play, whether this be in the family or in the local community more generally? How much impact do your programmes aim to have on these roles? In your experience, how successful do you think your NGO has been in achieving this impact? How relevant are human rights in the work that you do? You mention the words (I will refer to the terms or concept they use, for example, in your “empowerment”, “gender equality”, “upliftment”) vision/mission statement. What do these mean in the context of the work that your NGO does? What are the main sources of your funding? How much influence do your funders have on the work that you do? The following two chapters flesh out the taxonomy of the deployment of human rights which emerged from the analysis of the research materials. The chapters
reappeared in some of the interview transcripts and is further explored later in the discussion of activists’ accounts of economic empowerment in Chapter Seven. Further to this, the Alceste analysis identified the NGOs that were most associated with each class identified in the West Bengal and London reports. This enabled the selection of NGOs across the different themes for the second phase of the project. The following two chapters focus on analysing the research materials from both the Alceste reports and the transcripts of interviews with activists. The interview questions were selected to inform the research question and were based on the outcome of the literature review and the analysis of vision and mission statements. Interviewees were asked the following questions and responses were probed according to the specific context: Could you describe what you see as being the main work of (NGO name)? You have a website which has a section describing your vision and mission statement priorities. How did your NGO decide what these should be? Who is your website aimed at? Are any of your interventions particularly targeted at women? Is so, (or if not), why? When you plan your programmes, how much account do you take of the roles that women play, whether this be in the family or in the local community more generally? How much impact do your programmes aim to have on these roles? In your experience, how successful do you think your NGO has been in achieving this impact? How relevant are human rights in the work that you do? You mention the words (I will refer to the terms or concept they use, for example, “empowerment”, “gender equality”, “upliftment”) in your vision/mission statement. What do these mean in the context of the work that your NGO does? What are the main sources of your funding? How much influence do your funders have on the work that you do? The following two chapters flesh out the taxonomy of the deployment of human rights which emerged from the analysis of the research materials. The chapters
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