EMPOWERMENT OF SCHEDULED CASTE WOMEN THROUGH SELF HELF GROUPS
EMPOWERMENT OF SCHEDULED CASTE WOMEN THROUGH SELF HELF GROUPS

Author: Dr. Ramadevi. K.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 136528946X

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The Government of India had ushered in the new millennium by declaring the year 2001 as 'women's Empowerment year' to focus on a vision 'where women are equal partners like men. The most common explanation of 'women's empowerment is the ability to exercise full control over one's actions. The last decades have witnessed some basic changes in the status and role of women in jour society. There has been shift in policy approaches from the concept of welfare' in the seventies to development' in the eighties and now to 'empowerment, in the nineties.

Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India
Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India

Author: Kumar, Neha

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2018-08-22

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13:

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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.

Empowerment of Women Through Self Help Groups
Empowerment of Women Through Self Help Groups

Author: G. Sreeramulu

Publisher: Gyan Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9788178355016

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The book is an in-depth study of Empowerment of Women Through Self Help Groups. It covers the problems and perspectives of Self Help Groups and suggest several measures. The study has evaluated the implementation of several schemes in Anantapur District in particular and in Andhra Pradesh in general such as rearing goats, dairying, petty business activities, making of soft toys and so on. The findings are very much encouraging, such as Women are now managing their families, Panchayat Raj Institutions, are able to concentrate on their children s education and health. Contents include: Introduction, Public Policy Theoretical Perspectives, Evaluation, Aims and Objectctives of Self Help Groups in Anantapur District, Socio-Economic Background of the Sample Study, Problems and perspectives of Self Help Groups, Performance of Self Help Groups and Conclusion. This outstanding Text-cum-Reference book will be of great use to Scholars, Administrators, Planners, Policy-makers, Statesmen and Students of Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Commerce and Women Studites.

EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS
EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS

Author: Dr. SRINIVASULU P

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-07-10

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1387092693

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The general meaning of the term 'empowerment' is giving to individuals of power to take decisions in matters relating to themselves in relation to self-development1. Garden feels, 'the individual is an effect of power, and at the same time, repressively to the extent to which it is that effect, it is the element of its articulation. The individual with power has constituted, is at the same time its vehicle'2. According to Chandra Shanti Kohli (1997) empowerment in its simplest form means, the manifestation of redistribution of power that challenges patriarchal ideology and the male dominance.

Empowerment of Scheduled Caste Women Through Self Groups
Empowerment of Scheduled Caste Women Through Self Groups

Author: Santosh Kumar Singh

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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Development Alone Cannot Bring Peace, Prosperity And Progress Unless Social Justice And Gender Equality Are Ensured. It Has Been Realized That Development Programs Have Bypassed Women Who Constitute About Half Of The Population Of The Country. The International Conferences, Conventions, And Legal Enactment Highlighted The Imperative Need For The Gender Equality And Women Empowerment. The Scheduled Castes Women, Who Are Mainly Agricultural Labourers And Are Engaged In Unorganized Sector Of Economy, Are Still Living Below The Poverty Line And Suffer Due The To Their Overall Backwardness. Social Empowerment Cannot Bring Gender Equality And Social Justice Unless Economic Empowerment Is Ensured. In Order To Overcome Exploitation, Poverty And Making Women Self Reliant, Shg S Based Micro Finance Has Been Considered As A Instrument For Overall Economic Empowerment Of Rural Poor Women. Against This Background, Present Book Purports To Examine Status Of Scheduled Castes Women And Review Their Access To Micro Finance For Social-Economic Development. The Book Is Divided In Nine Chapters, Which Mainly Focus On Development Of Scheduled Castes Women, Micro Credit, Formation Of Shg S, Impact Of Micro Finance And Problem In Micro Financing In India. The Book Is Useful For Those Who Are Interested In This Field.

Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)
Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)

Author: Malapit, Hazel J.

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2019-01-18

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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In this paper, the authors describe the adaptation and validation of a project-level WEAI (or pro-WEAI) that agricultural development projects can use to identify key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address identified deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related to women’s empowerment. The 12 pro-WEAI indicators are mapped to three domains: intrinsic agency (power within), instrumental agency (power to), and collective agency (power with). A gender parity index compares the empowerment scores of men and women in the same household. The authors describe the development of pro-WEAI, including: (1) pro-WEAI’s distinctiveness from other versions of the WEAI; (2) the process of piloting pro-WEAI in 13 agricultural development projects during the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, phase 2 (GAAP2); (3) analysis of quantitative data from the GAAP2 projects, including intrahousehold patterns of empowerment; and (4) a summary of the findings from the qualitative work exploring concepts of women’s empowerment in the project sites. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned from pro-WEAI and possibilities for further development of empowerment metrics.

IMPACT OF MICRO-FINANCE ON RURAL SCHEDULED CASTE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS: A STUDY
IMPACT OF MICRO-FINANCE ON RURAL SCHEDULED CASTE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS: A STUDY

Author: Dr. C. Arunamma & Prof. G.Venkata Ramana

Publisher: Ashok Yakkaldevi

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1387459252

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The concept of Empowerment is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and multi-layered. The women’s empowerment is a process by which women gain greater share of control over resource-material, human and intellectual like knowledge, information, ideas and financial resources like money-and access to money and control over decision-making in the home, community, society and nation.1 The Proceedings of the Third International Women’s Conference held at Nairobi in the year 1985, paved the way for emergence of concept of women empowerment and the statesmen of great vision perceived it as a powerful tool for re-distribution of social power and control of resources in favor of women.

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS

Author: Dr. A. Ramalingaiah and Dr. M. Muninarayanappa

Publisher: Ashok Yakkaldevi

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1329667107

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The efforts made by the Indian development planners during the past decades are commendable in reducing poverty and other dimensions of human development. However, a number of tasks remain unfinished. Abject poverty is still a stark reality for millions of Indians. Also, wide gaps in human development among states, districts and social groups exist. There is an urgent need for more concerted efforts to achieve greater social and gender equality. Women in India are victims of a multiple socio-economic and cultural factors. They are an integral part of every economy. All round development and harmonious growth of a nation would be possible only when women are considered as equal partners in progress with men. Emancipation of women is a pre-requisite for a NATION'S ECONOMIC development and social upliftment. Poverty is the main obstacle for the improvement of the women. The role of women and the need to empower them are central to human DEVELOPMENT programs including poverty alleviation.

Empowerment of Rural Women Through Self Help Groups
Empowerment of Rural Women Through Self Help Groups

Author: B. Suguna

Publisher: Discovery Publishing House

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9788183560962

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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.