SELF HELP GROUPS IN INDIA

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SELF HELP GROUPS IN INDIA

• MARIE POLÁCHOVÁ
• IZI215
• xpolm38_at_vse.cz

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LEAD-IN SELF HELP GROUP /part one/

• 1.1 SHG (Self Help Group)
• - What is a SHG?
• 1.2 Focus of this presentation India
• 1.3 Facts on India
• - For a better understanding of the problem
• - People
• - Economy

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1 LEAD-IN SELF HELP GROUP /part two/

• 1.4 Some more definitions
• Microcredit
• Microfinance

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2 ECONOMICAL ASPECT OF THE IMPACT OF SHGs

• 2.1 How a SHG Can Be Set Up
• Case study Tamil Nadu
• 2.2 Businesses Run by SHGs Members
• What kind of businesses members run

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SOCIAL IMPACT OF SHGs/part one/

• 3.1 Impacts on the Whole Community
• Education
• Bonded Labour
• Lack of information
• Problem of Alcoholism

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3 SOCIAL IMPACT OF SHGs/part two/

• 3.2 Impact on the Situation of Women
  Empowering Women
• Gender Unequality - Position of Women in Society

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SHGs THE RIGHT WAY TO ABOLISH POVERTY?/part
one/

• 4.1 Needed Changes
• What changes need to be done in order to make
  SHGs really work
• Extended Coverage
• Individual Approach

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SHGs THE RIGHT WAY TO ABOLISH POVERTY?/part
two/

• Technology and Sustainability
• Enviromental Issues
• Market Linkages and Federation of SHGs

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5 CONCLUSION

• Significant differences in lives of many people
• Still is not a panacea!!!
• Help to improve gender unequality but can not
  deal with all traditions and social structures
• A pathway to fight poverty
• Changes are needed
• ) THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION (