IIAV website is in Dutch. A button at its bottom with the flag of Great Britain can be clicked to access IIAV’s very rich archives, resources, and networks.

To Marginalised Indian women IIAV’s activities ...
- in the field of International Cooperation (IC),
- with regard to “Combat Violence”, and
- “Gender & Water”
might be found most interesting. I am quoting from its twice-yearly newsletter IIAV International News:

“The IC’s mission is to work with partners in other countries to make information on the position of women visible, accessible and available.”

Another very valuable aspect is IIAVs networking in the sphere of internet activities controlled by women – which was also a dream of some of the Dalit women and of B. Schulze’s activities in setting up a newspaper monitoring cell, archives in Kerala and Trier, and this website: femCineCult-kerala ... with its focus on Dalit/ Marginalised women’s life-worlds.

CDS = Centre for Development Studies

The CDS is one of the oldest, and acknowledged study and information centres on questions regarding ‘development’ from a macro-, but also from micro-perspectives.

In our context I might point out the CDS’ Discussion Paper Series with very profound studies/ papers as part of the Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development, which can also be downloaded, such as:

Eapen, M. and P. Kodoth (2002), Family Structure, Women’s Education and Work. Re-examining the High Status of Women in Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, CDS, Working Paper No. 341
or
Krishnan C. (1999), Awareness and Utilisation of Educational Development Schemes by Tribesfolk of Wayanad, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, CDS, Discussion Paper No. 12

There are also book publications which make up for the legendary stock of CDS-connected studies into women’s problems, such as:
Gulati, Leela (1981), Profiles in female poverty: a study of five poor working women in Kerala, Delhi: Himalaya Publishing Corp., or
Gulati, Leela (1993), In the absence of their men: the impact of male migration on women, New Delhi: Sage Publications