Rajarhat Prasari Jadavpur, Kolkata

Women Managed SHGs in the villages are the building blocks to execute all the programmes. The SHGs with the women are formed or evaluated to take up the existing SHGs keeping socio-economic backwardness and the homogeneity in mind. APPROACH The SHGs are provided with rigorous handholding supports in the initial months and gradually they are built to manage their regular activities. The prime focus is to deal with the SHGs to build in the mutual help relationship among members and facilitating them to work as financial intermediaries. Each individual undergoes the series of visioning exercises before they are brought into the livelihoods intervention arena. Facilitation of these visioning exercises with very advanced tools by the Professionals is non-negotiable. The exercises end up with some oath taking by the women members for the improvement of their status.