scholarly journals KAPITTEL 3 Fra frivillig arbeid til folkehelsearbeid – om politisering av selvhjelpssaken

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marte Feiring
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Research Question ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
Health Work ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Self Help Groups

This chapter analyzes the politicisation of self-help groups as a public concern in Norway for the last three decades. The empirical data are three policy-documents, white papers on voluntary work (1992), mental health (1996) and public health (2002) and two national plans on self-help (2004, 2014). Besides, documents published from the self-help activists are analyzed together with interviews with central agents. The research question asks what has been the significance of the different politicisation stages that self-help activities were passing. The article concludes that self-help has undergone a political redefinition from voluntary work to mental and public health work. The dominant actors defining self-help have shifted from social work to a combined enterprise between the health authorities and the Norwegian self-help forum in the planning and regulating of self-help activities at the national level.

Self Help Groups

2016 ◽  
pp. 221-235
Author(s):  
Shruti Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Favorable Environment ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Help Group

The chapter is based on the Self Help Group-Bank linkage Programme in India. The objective of the chapter is to assess the SHGs access to credit under SHG-Bank Linkage Programme, to know the progress of SHG-Bank Linkage Programme in India and to evaluate the impact of SHG-Bank Linkage Programme in India. Finally the chapter ends with suggestions to improve self help group-bank linkage programme and concludes that SHG-Bank Linkage Programme has provided a more favorable environment for enhancing India's potential for greater equitable growth with empowerment while considering the positive signs in their performance.

scholarly journals Constraints Faced by the Women Self Help Groups in Nagaland and Suggest Measures to Overcome

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Nchumthung Murry ◽  
R. Nakhro ◽  
Sanjoy Das
Keyword(s):  
Educational Background ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Draw Conclusion ◽  
Skill Improvement ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Ranking Technique ◽  
Self Help Group

Although women Self Help Group (SHG) act as a catalyst in mobilizing poor women to attain socio and economic empowerment, it has been observed that women Self Help Group are facing various constraints which act as a barrier for many SHG to function effectively. In this context, it is important to study the nature of constraints facing by the Self Help Group and suggest suitable measure to overcome. Such, study to identify the nature and complexities of problems facing by the Self Help Group would help in strategizing policy measures for Self Help Group. Therefore, in this study attempt has been made to identify constraints faced by the Self Help Group and suggest suitable measures to overcome such constraints. The study was conducted in selected districts Nagaland. Multistage purposive random sampling was adopted for sampling 120 Self Help Groups for detailed study. Garrett’s Ranking Technique was applied for interpreting the results and to draw conclusion from the findings. From the study it was found out that the lack of technical know-how for taking up productive activities, lack of marketing facilities and inadequate loan amount which was ranked first, second respectively followed by lack of training facility for skill improvement, low social educational background of the members and delay in sanctioning loans.

scholarly journals KAPITTEL 4 «Midt i smørøyet» – samarbeid og ambivalens i grenseflater mellom profesjons- og erfaringskunnskap

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-113
Author(s):  
Nora Gotaas
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
District Office ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Education Resource ◽  
Competence Centre ◽  
Help Model

The chapter discusses collaborations and «borderwork» between self-help/mutual aid activists and professionals by the example of the project Utviklingsprosjekt LINK Vestfold. The project was initiated and run by three patient education resource centres (LMS) in Vestfold county in 2009–2010, financially supported by the Directorate of Health and in close collaboration with the National Competence Centre Self-Help Norway. Essentially, the project was very successful, resulting in a broad and active network of professionals and volunteers and the formation of new self-help groups. The project paved the way for a new district office of the National Competence Centre. At the same time, the collaboration revealed certain tensions and ambiguities on both sides, originating in close similarities as well as important differences regarding the use and practice of experiential knowledge – as opposed to professional knowledge – by actors operating in between and on the fringe of established fields. The project highlights how processes of standardization of the self-help model (by Self-Help Norway) is met by kind of resistance and how self-help as a «boundary object» needs to be kept flexible to adjust to different local contexts. This may be an act of balance in a context where the self-help movement is the weaker part regarding institutional strength, in need of guarding the autonomy of self-help groups.

scholarly journals Employment Creation through Microfinance and Self Help Groups with Special Reference to Thanjavur District

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 12373-12376
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
General Public ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Employment Creation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Self Help Groups

Framing gatherings is normal among individuals who share something practically speaking. Individuals have constantly attempted to beat their troubles aggregately and observed to be fruitful in their endeavors. Self improvement Gathering is one such gathering that is gone for assisting the ladies people with facing their life challenges on the whole in the general public where they live in. Over the most recent three decades the Self Help Movements has mushroomed in India. The poor do have inborn limit in them to improve their living conditions. Smaller scale acknowledge is perceived as a viable device to move the poor into another space of monetary strengthening. Miniaturized scale credit will be credit reached out to the reduced for self-determining employment, money related administrations like reserve funds and limit working among ladies society. In the vast majority of the nations helpful developments were set up to stretch out money related administrations to its' individuals since long.

scholarly journals EMPOWERING WOMEN SELF HELP GROUPS THROUGH MICROFINANCE DURING COVID-19: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN SHG

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Richa Sharma ◽  
Saurabh Mishra ◽  
Shashikant Rai
Keyword(s):  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
The Self ◽  
Potential Mechanism ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Prevention Activities ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Self Help Group

The paper describes the mitigating effect of self-help groups in India during and post covid-19 situation. The study examines the potential opportunities and challenges concerning the contextual differences across and within the countries. Self-help group has been important in empowering its members by providing opportunities for livelihood support and income generator during the covid-19 situation. The self-help group played a very important role during the covid-19 situation as half of the SHG was involved in community awareness and infection prevention activities in their community. The study identifies a potential mechanism through which women's groups may be affected by covid-19 situations. JEL Classification Codes: G21, I3.

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