Empowering Women Through Self- Help Groups(SHGs) Approach
Author : Dereje Misgana
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2014-11-29
Category :
ISBN : 9783659554803
Author : Dereje Misgana
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2014-11-29
Category :
ISBN : 9783659554803
Author : B. Suguna
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Rural women
ISBN : 9788183560962
All over the world there is a realization that the best way to tackle poverty and enable the community to improve its quality of life is through social mobilization of poor, especially women into Self Help Groups. Ever since Independence a number of innovative schemes have been launched for the upliftment of women in our country. Indian Government has taken lot of initiatives to strengthen the institutional rural credit system and development programmes. Viewing it in the welfare programmes of Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) and shifting the concept of Development to Empowerment. The Indian Government adopted the approach of Self Help Groups (SHGs) to uplift the rural women. The empowerment of women through Self Help Groups (SHGs) would lead to benefits not only to the individual woman and women groups but also the families and community as a whole through collective action for development. The book will be highly useful to students of social studies especially Women Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Economics and also to the students and research scholars specialising in Human Development and NGO s and also other functionaries dealing with women.
Author : A. Abdul Raheem
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788177082876
In India, the advancement and empowerment of women has been a leading objective of state policy ever since the attainment of independence in 1947. Institutions of different types - central, state, and local governments; non-governmental organizations; civil society; and other bodies - are active to ensure gender equality as laid down in the Constitution of India. India's Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012) recognizes women for the first time not just as equal citizens, but as agents of economic and social growth. The Plan's approach to gender equity is based on the recognition that interventions in favor of women must be multi-pronged and that they must be provided with basic entitlements. Self-help Groups (SHGs) have emerged as an effective instrument to promote entrepreneurship and self-confidence among women, particularly in rural areas. This book provides a vivid account of the various measures taken by the government of India for the economic, social, and political empowerment of women. More importantly, it examines the role of SHGs in women's development, thereby envisaging a synthesis of the formal financial system and informal sector.
Author : Lata Krishnan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2012
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ISBN :
Women are the most preponderant segment of the rural society who have long been bypassed or overlooked in the process of empowerment. The decadal efforts of bringing women into mainstream are gaining momentum with self-help approach. Self-help groups (SHGs) focusing on microfinance is proving to be a promising and innovative strategy of reaching the millennium development goal of empowering women. This being so, the study analyzed the formation and functioning of SHGs and the impact on socioeconomic status of underprivileged women. A pre-tested structured schedule was administered to collect the primary data from 350 SHG members and 30 animators. The study revealed that women come together as SHGs as they are able to get hassle-free and timely loans to meet emergence needs with thrift. Team sprit is acting as a binding factor to bring unity and cohesiveness among the group members. The SHG approach, apart from generating incremental income, helped them to upgrade the economic and social status along with a sense of recognition contributing to the process of empowerment.
Author : Kumar, Neha
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Women’s self-help groups (SHGs) have increasingly been used as a vehicle for social, political, and economic empowerment as well as a platform for service delivery. Although a growing body of literature shows evidence of positive impacts of SHGs on various measures of empowerment, our understanding of ways in which SHGs improve awareness and use of public services is limited. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper first examines how SHG membership is associated with political participation, awareness, and use of government entitlement schemes. It further examines the effect of SHG membership on various measures of social networks and mobility. Using data collected in 2015 across five Indian states and matching methods to correct for endogeneity of SHG membership, we find that SHG members are more politically engaged. We also find that SHG members are not only more likely to know of certain public entitlements than non-members, they are significantly more likely to avail of a greater number of public entitlement schemes. Additionally, SHG members have wider social networks and greater mobility as compared to non-members. Our results suggest that SHGs have the potential to increase their members’ ability to hold public entities accountable and demand what is rightfully theirs. An important insight, however, is that the SHGs themselves cannot be expected to increase knowledge of public entitlement schemes in absence of a deliberate effort to do so by an external agency.
Author : Mara van den Bold
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Many development programs that aim to alleviate poverty and improve investments in human capital consider womens empowerment a key pathway by which to achieve impact and often target women as their main beneficiaries. Despite this, womens empowerment dimensions are often not rigorously measured and are at times merely assumed. This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of womens empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. It then proceeds to review the evidence of the impact of three types of interventionscash transfer programs, agricultural interventions, and microfinance programson womens empowerment, nutrition, or both. Qualitative evidence on conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs generally points to positive impacts on womens empowerment, although quantitative research findings are more heterogenous. CCT programs produce mixed results on long-term nutritional status, and very limited evidence exists of their impacts on micronutrient status. The little evidence available on unconditional cash transters (UCT) indicates mixed impacts on womens empowerment and positive impacts on nutrition; however, recent reviews comparing CCT and UCT programs have found little difference in terms of their effects on stunting and they have found that conditionality is less important than other factors, such as access to healthcare and child age and sex. Evidence of cash transfer program impacts depending on the gender of the transfer recipient or on the conditionality is also mixed, although CCTs with non-health conditionalities seem to have negative impacts on nutritional status. The impacts of programs based on the gender of the transfer recipient show mixed results, but almost no experimental evidence exists of testing gender-differentiated impacts of a single program. Agricultural interventionsspecifically home gardening and dairy projectsshow mixed impacts on womens empowerment measures such as time, workload, and control over income; but they demonstrate very little impact on nutrition. Implementation modalities are shown to determine differential impacts in terms of empowerment and nutrition outcomes. With regard to the impact of microfinance on womens empowerment, evidence is also mixed, although more recent reviews do not find any impact on womens empowerment. The impact of microfinance on nutritional status is mixed, with no evidence of impact on micronutrient status. Across all three types of programs (cash transfer programs, agricultural interventions, and microfinance programs), very little evidence exists on pathways of impact, and evidence is often biased toward a particular region. The paper ends with a discussion of the findings and remaining evidence gaps and an outline of recommendations for research.
Author : Zubair Meenai
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Microfinance
ISBN : 9788187879060
Women Self-Help Groups Are Increasingly Being Used As Tool For Various Developmental Interventions. Credit And Its Delivery Through Self-Help Groups Have Also Been Taken As A Means For Empowerment Of Rural Women.This Integrated Approach, Whereby, Credit Is Only An Entry Point, And An Instrument To Operationalise Other Aspects Of Group Dynamics And Management, Also Caters To The Need For Social Intermediation Of These Groups. A Self-Help Group Is Conceived As A Sustainable People S Institution That Provides The Poor Rural Women With Space And Support Necessary For Them To Take Effective Steps Towards Achieving Greater Control Of Their Lives.It Is With This Perspective That This Book Has Been Attempted.This Work Seeks To Elucidate And Simplify The Approach To Women S Empowerment Through Credit-Based Self-Help Groups, By Both Providing The Theoretical Perspective As Well As Practical Guidance And Tips To Operationalise The Same. This Book Is Meant Primarily As A First Level Reader For Middle Level Functionaries In The Development Sector.
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241548052
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Author : Sushmita Mukherji
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Self-help groups
ISBN :
Author : Deepa Narayan-Parker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821351666
This publication offers a framework for the empowerment of people living in poverty throughout the world that concentrates on increasing people's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. Based on analysis of practical experiences, the book identifies four key elements to support empowerment: information, inclusion and participation, improved accountability and local organisational capacity. This framework is then applied to five areas of action to improve development effectiveness: provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, pro-poor market development, and access to justice and legal aid. It also offers twenty 'tools and practices' which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to support the empowerment of the poor.