What is it about?
Self-help groups, are locally organized groups established to address the needs and challenges of group members. They provide significant fora for people’s own organizing and voluntary participation (Rodima-Taylor 2014), and play an important role in economic, social, political and psychological empowerment in the countries of the Global South.
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Why is it important?
We argue that although the groups were not directly preoccupied with claiming rights and contesting government policy, they were gradually creating spaces for voices to be heard. In an imaginary situation in which such groups did not exist, the experiences and ideas of their members would not be acknowledged by local governing bodies to and the central government at large
Perspectives
This article co-authored among Researchers from the North and South researchers, a way of strengthen North-South collaborations in research and academia. The article adds to the existing knowledge of citizenship and it goes beyond the legal framework of how citizenship is defined.
Rehema Kilonzo
University of Dodoma
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This page is a summary of: Habits of contributing citizenship, November 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9780429279171-10.
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