Self-help Group Participation & Women Artisans of Shantiniketan Leather Cluster, West Bengal: An Empirical Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indranil Bose ◽  
Vishwas Gupta ◽  
Atul Kumar Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Self Help Group

Micro-finance refers to small savings, credit and insurance services. These services are extended to socially and economically disadvantaged segments of society. The women artisans from Shantiniketan leather cluster, who have a long tradition of manufacturing leather bags and other accessories, have changed their lives and their socio-living condition in many aspects, by adopting the ways of self-help group formation under different coordinating agencies (specially the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) since 1992). These self-help groups have been extended soft loans of various natures; through the respective coordinating agencies. These initiatives have added different and new positive dimensions in respect to the lives of members of such groups. This structured and questionnaire based feedback empirical study, attempts to evaluate the level of positive changes that occurred in the lives of under-privileged rural women artisans, engaged in leather craftsmanship under several self-help groups, coordinated by different NGOs at the grass-root level.

Impact Study of Women Empowerment through Self-Help Groups - A Study of Haryana

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minaxi Setia ◽  
Manvinder Singh Tandon ◽  
, Brijpal
Keyword(s):  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Rural Finance ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Self Help Group ◽  
The Way

Women empowerment is emerging as a key challenge for all the communities of a country specially India. In a number of countries, women have to struggle for their rights and living values. To beat such issues various steps have been taken by private, public and non-governmental organizations. A Self Help Group is one of these steps, which is radically contributing in the way of women empowerment. Self Help Groups give opportunities to the poor women to manage their lives through savings along with running small-scale businesses. Numerous studies have been conducted and results show that the Self Help Group is crucial for rural finance services and is also helpful in enhancing work opportunities. The present study is based on quantitative impact analysis of SHGs of Hisar district, state Haryana, India. Data has been collected and analyzed through questionnaires and that was moreover an interview. Target for the respondents were women living in this district who had joined SHGs. Descriptive statistics of this study show the significance of the SHGs in the way of improvement of women’s socio-economic conditions in the district.

scholarly journals Women Empowerment: Analysis of the Role of Self Help Groups in Empowering Rural Women in Goa

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Joey Joey Henriques
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Help Group

Self Help Groups have emerged as an important mechanism to bring about socio-economic change in society. Various studies indicate the positive impact that SHGs have had on employment generation, savings, incomes, poverty alleviation and women empowerment. The present study, based on primary data sourced from women members of SHGs located in the state of Goa is an attempt to understand the impact of group membership on its members, particularly women. An attempt has also been made to throw light on the pivotal role that the Self Help Group Promoting Agencies essay in realising the goal of women empowerment. The study also analyses the independence that women exhibit in taking decisions, be it in the economic or political domain.

A Study of Self Help Groups in Empowering the Rural Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Neelam Kumari ◽  
Joginder Singh Malik ◽  
Dangi Pooja Arun ◽  
M. S. Nain
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Market Intelligence ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
Income Development ◽  
Income Generating Activities ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Social Empowerment ◽  
Self Help Group ◽  
Micro Enterprises

A Self-Help Group (SHG) is a registered or unregistered group of people having homogenous socio-economic background, voluntarily coming together to save small amounts regularly, mutually agree for the contribution of a common fund and to meet their emergency needs. It aims engaging rural women with new activities to increase their income, development of better networks and linkages and improved the existing conditions of the SHGs members. The study was conducted to analyse the income generating activities being taken up and the level of empowerment of SHG members.. Result pertaining to income generating activities indicated that majority of the respondents were involved with small micro enterprises. The need to develop SHGs and motivate rural women to systematically manage and choose their activities in order to generate income can be advocated. Certain essential activities like choosing the more appropriate activity, market intelligence, establishing marketing linkages etc. are an indication of the capability of the groups as SHGs becoming a tool for social empowerment.

scholarly journals Self-Help Group of Rural Assam and Its Role in Women Empowerment

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Polee Saikia
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equal Right ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Self Help Group ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

<div><p><em>Women empowerment is a universal issue. Women empowerment refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as for the society. It refers to increasing and improving the social, economic, political and legal strength of the women, to ensure equal right to women and to make them confident enough to claim their rights. The overall development of the nation remains as a paradox until and unless the women got empowered. The under privileged rural women are still far from empowerment. Unemployment, illiteracy and low social recognition made them so. Presently the self-help groups that mushrooming in different corners of rural Assam have been creating opportunities for women to be empowered. Here in this study an attempt has been made to study whether the rural women got scope to get empowered by getting engagement in self-help groups. 40 women from 04 self-help groups, 13 literate and 27 illiterate women were taken as sample for the study. To collect first hand data self structured questionnaire and self structured interview schedule were prepared by the investigators. Percentage was used to analyze data.</em></p></div>

scholarly journals Constraints Faced by the Members in Functioning of Self Help Groups in Punjab District

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Shikha Singh ◽  
Sukhjeet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Training Opportunities

In Punjab the concept of SHGs has gained a huge popularity. Many institutions such as government organizations, non-government organizations, farmers clubs, health workers and banks are using this approach to empower women socially, economically and politically. SHG have brought tremendous change in the life of women at grass root level. But it requires a lot more efforts on part of the government, NGOs as well as banking sector to promote SHGs in the state. In spite of the speeding number of SHGs, the full potential of SHGs remains unexploited due to some challenges faced by the members of SHGs. Therefore the present study was planned to know the challenges faced by the members of SHGs in Punjab in proper functioning of the groups. The findings of this study revealed that lack of training opportunities were found to be the most serious problem perceived by the members of self-help groups. It was followed by lack guidance and support from promoting agencies and limited opportunities for income generating activities. There is need to overcome these hurdles by providing appropriate training and guidance for smooth functioning of self-help groups.

scholarly journals AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN RURAL INDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 304-309
Author(s):  
Shristy Poddar ◽  
Sumit Bharti ◽  
Kavitha S Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Help Group

The dynamic development of the microfinance business has been advanced by market powers as well as by cognizant activities of national governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and the benefactors who view microfinance as a successful device for killing neediness. The incredible push behind this immense and expanding support for microfinance showed that national monetary and social effects are noteworthy and it should be analysed all the more intently.   Self Help Group (SHG) provides microfinance services for people in rural regions so they can use the capital for small business, productive work and become financially stable and independent. In this article, we have described the impact of microfinance on poverty alleviation its impacts on people and society. Here we have explained, the main purpose of this article is to present Microfinance and how it can be useful for poor people and the reduction of unemployment.

Socio – Economic status of Fishermen Community of Kashmir, India.

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizwana MALIK ◽  
Mansoor Ahmad RATHER ◽  
Adnan ABUBAKR
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Extension Programs ◽  
Technology Study ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Psychological Behavior ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Traditional Fishing

The purpose of this study was to identify the detailed socio-economic profiles of the fishers inhabiting the highest number of fishers in the state of Kashmir. The findings revealed that fishing community of this state lives in abject poverty practicing traditional fishing methods that either need improvement or replacement by modern scientific technology. Study further revealed that 99% of the population is educated up to primary level with 0% participation in extension programs and 87.5% have low information sources. Impoverishment has led to a negative impact on the socio -psychological behavior of the fishers. Fishers are facing problems in procuring basic amenities of life that mark a sure deprivation and neglect of the communityfrom governmental supports. Trainings and technological interventions alone will not help the community cope up with the financial stress, some definite support from governmental and non – governmental organizations play an instrumental role in their socio -economic upliftment. Formation of Cooperatives and Self-Help Groups (SHGs) may be a positive move to bring change in their lives and help them achieve goals they dreamt for.

scholarly journals Networking of the Farm Women by the Farm Science Centre of North Bengal

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Ganesh Das ◽  
Sarthak Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Farm Women ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Usable Information ◽  
Science Centre ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
North Bengal

Agricultural extension organizations of developing nations confronted numerous limitations in their activities of information age and use. Farm Science Center or Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) assumes a significant job in giving information to the farmers and farm women in India. Rural women structure a huge portion of the agricultural workforce. They likewise need proper and usable information that would assist them with their cultivating exercises. Farm women will, in general, get recycled information from their spouses and companions if they are not the leader of their family. They are less intrigued to go to training activities because of family obligations or versatility imperatives. Thought of the above circumstance, an investigation (by gathering information) was directed on "Networking of the Farm women by the Farm Science Centre of North Bengal". The investigation was directed from March 2018 to April 2019 in North Bengal. The information was gathered from the optional sources. It was found from the examination that participation of farm women in extension activities was nearly higher than in training activities. Farm Science centre dispersed agricultural information through the arrangement of various grass root level extension organisation, for example, Farmers Clubs and Self Help Groups.

scholarly journals Rural women farmers’ assessment of credit oriented self-help groups in Delta State, Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-340
Author(s):  
Albert Ofuoku ◽  
Carol Albert
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
Self Help Groups

This study was conducted to analyze the perception of the rural woman about credit oriented self-help group in Delta State, Nigeria. A sample size of 110 respondents was used for the study and data were collected from them with the use of structured interview schedule and questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and linear regression equation model as the lead equation. It was revealed that the women farmers subscribed to self-help groups in order to be able to have access to credit (mean = 3.78), information (mean = 3.55), extension services (mean = 3.45). The respondents were satisfied with their respective self-help groups. However, they had some challenges such as inadequate access to extension services (mean = 3.55) and lack of commitment by the leaders (mean = 3.22) and members (mean = 3.19). Educational level and frequency of extension contact of the respondents were found to influence their perception on self-help groups at 5% level of significance. It is recommended that governmental and non-governmental organizations, and university agricultural extension departments should carry out a campaign on workshops for these groups on commitment and extension agencies should diversify their focus to include selfhelp groups and activities.

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