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Swayam
Siddha
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Concept
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For
empowering the women socially, efforts were concentrated
on empowering them economically. The credit flow to
rural women was channelled through Self-Help Groups
and Clusters at a large stage. Though women have many
inherent capabilities like strong determination, sense
of responsibility, better managerial ability, yet their
potential has not been utilized fully. Looking at the
present status of women in agriculture and their limited
access to resources, the need of the day is to make
women as "partners" in development, not only
as mere "beneficiaries" but also as "contributors". |
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Keeping
the same in mind, we intensified our efforts in the
Sustainable Agricultural & Women Empowerment through
Rural Approach (SAWERA) which was started in Baghpat
to build SHG for sustainable agriculture for food security
and economic empowerment of women. Keeping pace with
the time, Aseed covered 37 villages of the Khera block
and formed 102 Groups. These groups were provided the
IGA training to enable them to start diversified agro
activities like Animal Rearing, Piggery, Poultary etc. |
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Focus
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Our
focus remained concentrated on gender training, training
of women farmer groups, particularly BPL women groups,
micro planning and training related to total farm management
including irrigation management for making them self-sufficient.
Apart from this, various social issues like women empowerment,
abortion, alcoholism, child marriage, girl's education,
sex determination, health, sanitation etc. were undertaken.
The main focus of the project's work has been upscaling
the work on linkages with other institutions, namely
of the Government, the |
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Women
Empowerment |
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Panchayat-level
and Block-level officers. These new linkages are enabling
the groups to get micro finance and loans from the banks
to start micro enterprises. The sustainability of the
groups is being strengtherned in this way even after
the completion of the project. |
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Approaches
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For
successful implementation of the programme, there were
various challenges before the Aseed Team. Considering
the challenges experienced, consultants were involved
for the preparation of action plan. To begin with, 30
women SHGs were selected according to the programme
guidelines. Meeting with all the expected outcomes and
the benefits of the programme were also discussed and
the schemes of assistance and its proper utilization
emplasized. The SHGs were also guided to prepare their
micro plan and guidelines were provided to them to enhance
effective SHGs to get better results for different types
of membership up to 15 members as initially the number
of members, in most of the groups was more than 10 but
less than 15. |
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Outcomes
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This
project has started from 2001-2007 and also conducted
various programmes shown below. It has helped in setting
up more than 125 educational & vocational centres
with a focus on girlchild education and empowerment.
It has built up capacity of more than 10500 grassroot
and development functionary and the area of women empowerment. |
Training
in Various Fields |
No.
of Trainee |
Training
to Self-Help Groups |
Udvat
Nagar |
40 |
Course
Materials |
No
of Trainee |
Kasap |
46 |
Food
Processing |
125 |
Kulhariya
and Koilwar |
45 |
Papad
Making |
120 |
Arrah |
49 |
Pickle
Making |
70 |
Chota
Dumra |
41 |
Badi
Making |
140 |
Vihiya |
30 |
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