Building Sustainable Communities

Introduction: Civil Society in the era of Globalization: emerging concerns as a social welfare provider.- Part I: Changing South Asian Society and Developmental Challenges.- Chapter 1: Role of Civil Society Organization in the Welfare of People with Deaf and blindness in South Asia: A Case Study on Sense International India.- Chapter 2: Youth Welfare: Situating Civil Society Organizations in Developmental Paradigm.- Chapter 3: Samurdhi Programme as a poverty alleviation strategy: An evaluation study based on Bodhi Gramma village in Gampha District in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 4: Vulnerability of Charland dwellers to Climate Change: Various Adaptation practices in Bangladesh.- Part II: The State, Civil Society Organization and Social Welfare.- Chapter 5: Media and NGOs: Strategic Effective Governance.- Chapter 6: The role of civil society in democratic consolidation process in Bangladesh.- Chapter 7: Civil Society And Political Change: Globalization And Transforming Relations in South Asia.- Chapter 8: Democratic Practice and Good Governance in Nepal.- Chapter 9: Taxonomy of State-CSOs Relations in India.- Chapter 10: The civil struggle to access airways:  Study on SARU Community Radio Initiative - Sri Lanka.- Part III: Civil Society initiatives for Women Welfare.- Chapter 11: Civil Society as the Guardian of Women's Human Rights in India.- Chapter 12: Social welfare in India: role of Sri Skhetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Programme in women empowerment.- Chapter 13: Role and Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations in Women Empowerment: A Case Study of the All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA).- Chapter 14: Civil society contribution in women empowerment.- Chapter 15: Women empowerment - Impact assessment of select Interventions by Various Third Sector Organizations in India.- Part IV: Building Sustainable communities: Civil

Md. Nurul Momen is a Professor in the department of Public Administration at University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Dr. Momen has published many articles in the international journals including chapters in different books, dealing in a range of debates in Public Policy and Law, Governance, and Public Sector Reform in South Asia. Dr Momen as a project manager has an extensive experience in implementing a three-year long World Bank project on enhancing the quality of higher education in Bangladesh.

Dr. Rajendra Baikady is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Confucius Institute Understanding China Fellow at the Department of Social Work Shandong University, Peoples Republic of China. Prior to this Dr Baikady worked as an Assistant professor at the Department of Social Work, Central university of Karnataka, India. His research examined impetus for social work education in a parliamentary democracy and communist regimes- such as India and China. Dr Baikady was the recipientof prestigious Short Term Research Award (STARA) by the Ministry of Education, Government of Taiwan for conducting research at National Chengchi University Taiwan as visiting Scholar during April to June 2018. In 2018, Dr Baikady was awarded the prestigious Confucius Institute Understanding China fellowship for his research related to social work education in China (2018 October to 2019 march).

Cheng Sheng Li is a Professor in the Department of Social Work School of Philosophy and Social Development Shandong University, Peoples Republic of China. Prof. Cheng has carried out research projects founded by international agencies such as UNESCO, Washington University in St. Louis in U.S, University of British Columbia in Canada, Taiwan Dongwu University. He was a visiting professor for many international university departments. Prof. Cheng has 6 books, 37 research articles (both in English and Chinese) and 05 international projects to his credit. His areas of work are Urban