scholarly journals Layering of a health, nutrition and sanitation programme onto microfinance-oriented self-help groups in rural India: results from a process evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laili Irani ◽  
Janine Schooley ◽  
Supriya ◽  
Indrajit Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The State ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Block Level ◽  
Sanitation Systems ◽  
Self Help Groups

Abstract Background The state of Bihar has been lagging behind Indian national averages on indicators related to maternal and child health, primarily due to lack of knowledge among mothers of young children on lifesaving practices and on where to seek services when healthcare is needed. Hence, the JEEViKA Technical Support Programme was established in 101 blocks to support the state rural livelihood entity, JEEViKA, in order to increase demand for and link rural families to existing health, nutrition and sanitation services. Programme activities were geared to those engaged in JEEViKA’s microfinance-oriented self-help groups. These groups were facilitated by a village-based community mobilizer who was trained on health, nutrition and sanitation-related topics which she later shared in self-help group meetings monthly and during ad hoc home visits. Further, a block-level health, nutrition and sanitation integrator was introduced within JEEViKA to support community mobilizers. Also, indicators were added into the existing monitoring system to routinely capture the layering of health, nutrition and sanitation activities. Methods A process evaluation was conducted from August–November 2017 which comprised of conducting 594 quantitative surveys with community mobilizers, from program and non-programme intervention blocks. Linear and logistic regressions were done to capture the association of at least one training that the community mobilizers received on knowledge of the topics learned and related activities they carried out. Results Community mobilizers who had received at least one training were more likely to have higher levels of knowledge on the topics they learned and were also more likely to carry out related activities, such as interacting with block-level integrators for guidance and support, routinely collect data on health, nutrition and sanitation indicators and spend time weekly on related activities. Conclusions Successful integration of health, nutrition and sanitation programming within a non-health programme such as JEEViKA is possible through trainings provided to dedicated staff in decentralized positions, such as community mobilizers. The findings of this evaluation hold great promise for engaging existing non-health, nutrition and sanitation systems that are serving vulnerable communities to become partners in working towards ensuring stronger health, nutrition and sanitation outcomes for all.

scholarly journals SELF HELP GROUPS IN HARYANA: AN ANALYSIS OF TRENDS AND SCHEMES

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tej Singha ◽  
Parul Mittalb
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
The State ◽  
Forest Department ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Spread Model ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Development Department

The paper highlights the Self Help Groups trends and patterns in the State of Haryana. In the state, both government and non government organizations are working for microfinance programme and have been promoting SHGs under various programmes and schemes by different departments and agencies. In Haryana, SHGs are promoting through Women and Child Development Department has promoted SHGs under the Programme for Advancement of gender Equity and Swayamsiddha. Women’s Awareness and Management Academy has promoted Swa-shakti project. Forest Department has been promoting SHGs under the Haryana Community Forest Project and Integrated Natural Resource Management and Poverty Reduction. Banks are promoting SHGs under the SHGs-Bank linkage Programme of NABARD; DRDA is promoting SHGs under Swarnjayati Gram Swarajgar Yojana ((Now National Rural Livelihoods Mission, NRLM). Mewat Development Agency is promoting SHGs under IFAD programme in Mewat district. The most wide-spread model of micro-finance in Haryana is Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana and NABARD-SHG Linkage.

A Survey of Statewide Self-Help Groups for Older Persons who are Visually Impaired

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kalafat ◽  
J. Dehmer
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
The State ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Group Functioning ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Self Help Groups

This article describes a program funded by the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired that employs two visually impaired consultants to develop self-help groups for persons who are blind or visually impaired throughout the state. Once established, over half the 23 groups function independently of the consultants. A survey of group members revealed a variety of benefits of the groups, including reduced isolation, as well as barriers to group functioning, such as the lack of transportation.

scholarly journals Helping ourselves - the role of self-help groups in poverty alleviation through aquaculture.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Haylor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Development Context ◽  
To Come ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Rural Aquaculture ◽  
Self Help Groups

Abstract Self-help groups (SHGs) are ways for farmers and fishers, especially those who are poor, to come together and work together. They can be a useful entry point for outsiders, promote a supportive local environment, strengthen voices in decision-making and in negotiations with more powerful forces, increase the effectiveness of local actions, and provide easier access to micro-credit and other resources and services. This case study describes a rural aquaculture development context, in India, the development of SHGs and the concept of a 'one-stop aqua shop', set up and run by a federation of self-help groups in Kaipara village, West Bengal (a pilot state along with Jharkhand and Orissa). It outlines testing new ways to share information, as part of a series of revised procedures and institutional arrangements for service delivery recommended by farmers and fishers and prioritized by government, with support from the Department for International Development (DFID) Natural Resources Support Programme (NRSP) and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) to the Support to Regional Aquatic Resources Management (STREAM) Initiative.

Women’s Collectives and State-Led Development in West Bengal: Reimagining Selves During Counterinsurgency

2020 ◽  
pp. 097317412096535
Author(s):  
Lipika Kamra
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Self Help Groups

This article examines the micropolitics of state-directed women’s collectives in India called self-help groups. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a setting where development becomes a means of counterinsurgency for the state, it looks at how rural women in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal use these collectives to negotiate with the state and make claims on state actors. The article argues that rural women aspire to new individual selves through their membership of SHG collectives. Women reimagined their selfhoods through their access to the state-sponsored public sphere and building new roles for themselves within it. The argument is presented in conversation with research on self-help groups and microfinance initiatives for rural women, and it builds on work that examines the unintended consequences of such development interventions for women’s lives.

scholarly journals Employing of Technical Assistants by Means of Micro Finance Factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2S4) ◽  
pp. 218-224
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Tamil Nadu State ◽  
Diagnostic Research ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Social Association

Self improvement gathering (SHG) is a town based money related delegate normally made out of 10– 20 nearby ladies. Most self improvement gatherings are situated in India, however SHGs can likewise be found in different nations, particularly in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Microfinance improves the socio– financial status of the Self-help gatherings. The point of microfinance program is to satisfy the monetary needs of low-salary bunches with the assistance of banks and it prompts the advancement of Self Help Groups. Research ponders on SHGs in the state uncovers that these gatherings comprised of for the most part 15-20 individuals for the most part having a place with in reverse territories of the general public. SHGs in India have turned into a potential instrument for the strengthening of ladies, social solidarity and financial advancement of the poor in their own setting. This paper frames some portion of a diagnostic research consider on the job of microfinance factors in the improvement of Self-help bunch in Tamil Nadu state. The examination was directed with an example of 560 individuals from self improvement gatherings having a place with various areas in Tamil Nadu, utilizing multistage inspecting and stratified testing. It has been discovered that the elements impacting self improvement gatherings are financial advantages, observation, gain profited, government disability, social association as for microfinance. It is prescribed that the assets ought to be used in the productive manner to create self improvement gatherings in the state.

Introduction to the Forum on Cluttering: Rays of Hope Shine Around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1567
Author(s):  
Isabella Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Attention Performance ◽  
Self Help Groups

Purpose In the 10 years since the International Cluttering Association (ICA) was created, this organization has been growing in the scope of its initiatives, and in the variety of resources it makes available for people with cluttering (PWC). However, the awareness of this disorder and of the methods for its intervention remain limited in countries around the world. A celebration of the multinational and multicultural engagements of the ICA's Committee of the International Representatives is a common thread running through all the articles in this forum. The first article is a joint effort among international representatives from five continents and 15 countries, exploring various themes related to cluttering, such as awareness, research, professional preparation, intervention, and self-help groups. The second article, by Elizabeth Gosselin and David Ward, investigates attention performance in PWC. In the third article, Yvonne van Zaalen and Isabella Reichel explain how audiovisual feedback training can improve the monitoring skills of PWC, with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication. In the final article, Hilda Sønsterud examines whether the working alliance between the client and clinician may predict a successful cluttering therapy outcome. Conclusions Authors of this forum exchanged their expertise, creativity, and passion with the goal of solving the mystery of the disconcerting cluttering disorder with the hope that all PWC around the globe will have access to the most effective evidence-based treatments leading to blissful and successful communication.

Developing Approaches to Self-Help Groups

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 635-636
Author(s):  
Nathan Hurvitz
Keyword(s):  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups

Self-Help Groups and the Professional

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Riessman ◽  
Alan Gartner
Keyword(s):  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups
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