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Most of the women are to live in some of the most oppressive soci-conditions in all of India. Women’s empowerment programs listed below:
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| Self-Helf Groups |
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Self-Help Groups provide platforms through which women can acquire new information, skills, and an economic self-reliance.
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Nutrition, health and hygiene; |
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Establishing savings accounts and communal funds, financial record; |
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Management of micro credit lending schemes; |
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Developing and maintaining of small scale cottage industries, such as masala (spices) making, bag making, metal utensil making; |
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Organic pesticides and fertilizers, seed banks; |
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Construction, use and repair of rainwater harvesting structures; |
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In this sector, women engage in income generating programmes. The strategy comprises:
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Implementation of income generating programmes for women belonging to specially disadvantaged group (s). The organizing agency is required to become a partner with the beneficiary in setting up of self-employment schemes for a suitable period, after which women should be able to sustain the programme on their own. |
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Development of an integrated approach to natural resource management with women as primary actors in the utilization and management of natural resources. |
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Adoption of a holistic approach for the empowerment of women belonging to specially disadvantaged groups through education, awareness creation and skill formation. |
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Evolving replicable models for promoting the participation of women in entrepreneurial and economic activities, production of value-added goods and services, professional careers, activities related to social reform and in the democratic of participatory wasteland and natural resource regeneration schemes involving women and Panchayats. |
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Projects which foster health promotional activities at the community level, with emphases on empowerment through information dissemination and participative decentralized micro- planning. |
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