About the project

The growing social awareness across the globe has brought a number of issues to the fore among which gender equality and empowerment of women are very significant.Discrimination against women in the form of male-female differentiation constitute the core of gender-biased system .Gender refer to the “socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women .The empowerment is not essentially political alone;it is a process having personal, social, economic and political dimensions with personal empowerment being the core of empowerment process. The scheme of micro-financing through Self-help groups (SHGs) has transferred the real economic power in the hands of women and has considerably reduced their dependence on men .This has helped in the empowerment of women and building self-confidence, but lack of education often comes in the way and many a times they had to seek help from their husbands for day-to-day work i.e. bank, accounts etc. The higher level of learning will help them to learn skill and vocations and help them in playing an important role in the management of SHGs.

Centre for development communication took initiative to form Self-help groups (SHGs)for waste workers and provide them an alternate source of income. It helps them for the betterment of the life.

In Nagpur city, we have over 60 SHGs of waste workers. The waste workers generally works either with Municipal Corporation or under any private contractor but it is only the CDC’s initiative that we are trying to provide them some other livelihoo options so that they don’t need to depend on their traditional occupation. Similarly, we have initiated the project on micro-credit and self-help groups in Jaipur city. Our target group is mainly slum dwellers and unorganized sector. We have launched the livelihood project in Shastri Nagar slum in Jaipur with active community participation.

Objectives of the project

• Improving the socio-economic condition of the targeted community, and aware them regarding their basic rights. Decentralization of the power through economic empowerment of women.
• ‘We cannot imagine a healthy society without having healthy mothers’ women are the backbone of the society. Economic empowerment and information dissemination will help them to look after their health issues.
• Generally in India women’s contribution of work does not count in the family, whether it is paid or unpaid, but if a women gain some significant sum of wages then it may help them to get in to the male earning slice.
• “If we educate a woman, we can educate the nation” through the SHG movement it is possible to create a thrust of education among the women for the betterment of their own and their child also.
• To provide a shelter to the group of women where they can spend sometime together while they do the group work for earning. In one word we can say ‘entertainment while you work’.
• Organizing women through the formation of Self-Help Groups.
• Creating common fund by contributing small savings on a regular basis.
• Capacity building of women for best practices of inters loaning and avail the government schemes.