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COMMUNITY STRUCTURES ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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Urban Community Development Society (CDS)

• Formulation of Objectives Strategies
• Community participation for development are the
  strategies adopted to realize this goal.
• Mobilisation of Resources
• The functionaries of the Urban Community
  Development Societies (CDSs) of Kerala believe
  that dearth of innovative and workable ideas are
  a bigger problem for poverty reduction than
  scarcity of resources. The CDS system of the
  state functions like a convex lens, converging
  the resources of all the line departments and
  organisations engaged in implementation of
  poverty reduction programmes

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Urban Community Development Society (CDS)

• Process
• The guiding slogan of the CDS movement is
  reaching out families through women and reaching
  out community through families
• Grass root level Neighbourhood Group (NHG) are
  formed consisting of 15 to 40 adult women,
  representing each BPL family of the locality
• At the ward level the NHGs are federated into
  Area Development Society (ADS). Again at the
  urban local body level ADSs are federated to
  Community Development Society (CDS).

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Urban Community Development Society (CDS)

• Process
• CDS system function as open forums for the poor
  women to express their anxieties, aspirations and
  ideas. Through the CBOs the poor women get
  empowered and they muster enough courage to fight
  poverty and atrocities against them.
• The micro plans of various NHGs are combined at
  ADS level to form mini plans and at the CDS level
  for forming the anti poverty sub plans of the
  urban local bodies.
• The urban CDSs of Kerala give paramount
  importance for micro enterprise development.

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Urban Community Development Society (CDS)

• Results Achieved
• The CDS structure has brought about a sea change
  in the lives of the urban poor of Kerala.
• Community mobilisation The poor women of the
  local body have formed 7,848 NHGs
• The poor womens bank NHGs formed under
  Kudumbashree also act as Thrift and Credit
  Societies (TCSs) which facilitate savings to
  be given as loan for income generation needs
• Innovative enterprise development economic
  empowerment- Micro Enterprise promotion is given
  prime thrust in CDS model of urban poverty
  alleviation.

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Urban Community Development Society (CDS)

• Results Achieved
• Women Empowerment The giant leap made in the
  areas of women empowerment speaks a lot about
  this CDS model

• Convergence- CBOS of the CDS model act as the
  launch vehicles for the developmental
  activities of various government departments.

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Urban Community Development Society (CDS)

• Results Achieved
• Remedial Education Centres (RECs)- The urban
  CDSs of Kerala run remedial education centers for
  helping out the poor students in public
  examinations.
• Change in attitude and approach - Now the urban
  poor of Kerala, especially women view life with
  more optimism and they participate in
  developmental and income generation activities
  with great enthusiasm.

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Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP)

• Strategy
• As part of the Urban Poverty Alleviation Program,
  UBSP specifically addresses the needs of women
  and children, the most vulnerable and affected by
  poverty, with a clear principle of women's
  participation
• In many cities, federations of NHCs have formed
  Community Development Societies (CDS) at ward or
  city level. Within this framework, a systematic
  bottom-up planning process with the women begins.
  The "mini-plans" (prepared at the NHC level) are
  area-specific plans based on an assessment of
  felt and perceived needs. The consolidation of
  these plans results in a city plan, initially,
  for the project areas.

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Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP)

• Achievements
• The force of Resident Community Volunteers in
  UBSP has increased from a handful lot to a number
  of 1,00,000
• Reports indicate that in at least 15 States the
  women are actively involved in the process of
  identifying needs, prioritizing them, planning,
  mobilizing resources and supporting actual
  implementation
• In 11 States formation of Thrift and Credit
  Societies or other community revolving funds is
  underway
• Virtually all the RCVs have been trained at least
  twice in specific skills and information related
  to basic needs, their rights and specific
  services.

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Swaran Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojna (SJSRY)

• The three Urban Poverty Alleviation Schemes,
  namely Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP),
  Nehru Rojgar Yojana (NRY) and Prime Ministers
  Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication programme
  (PMI UPEP) have been dovetailed in a new scheme
  namely Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar yojana
  (SJSRY) with effect from 1.12.97.
• The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY)
  consists of two special schemes, namely
• (i) The Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP)
• (ii) The Urban Wage Employment programme (UWEP

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The Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP)

• This programme has three components -
• Assistance to individual urban poor beneficiaries
  for setting up gainful self-employment ventures.
• Assistance to groups of urban poor women for
  setting up gainful self-employment ventures. This
  sub-scheme has been titled as "The Scheme for
  Development of Women and Children in the Urban
  Areas (DWCUA)".
• Training of beneficiaries, potential
  beneficiaries and other persons associated with
  the urban employment programme for upgradation
  and acquisition of vocational and entrepreneurial
  skills.

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The Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP)

• Target Group
• The programme targets the urban poor, defined as
  those living below the urban poverty line, as
  defined from time to time
• Special attention is given to women, persons
  belonging to scheduled Castes/Tribes, disabled
  persons and other such categories as may be
  indicated by the Government from time to time.

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The Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP)

• This programme seeks to provide wage employment
  to beneficiaries living below the poverty line
  within the jurisdiction of urban local bodies by
  utilizing their labour for construction of
  socially and economically useful public assets.

A new component of Information, Education and
Communication (IEC) has been evolved under SJSRY
with a view to play an effective role in
coordination and organizing training, monitoring,
evaluation, dissemination of information etc.
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The Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP)

• Interested women as per their needs are
  encouraged to form Self Help Groups and make
  monthly savings of a fixed amount

• The Varied IGA activities under SJSRY that have
  been initiated by DWCUA groups or by Individuals
  just shows that when the gateway of opportunities
  is opened for the poor through skill upgradation
  trainings and provision of loan then there are
  many among the urban poor who can have their own
  enterprises. You have just to see to believe the
  success of this scheme.