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    PRADAN works to promote self-help groups (SHGs) of rural poor women in India. They provide guidance and support to help SHGs fulfill their goals. This includes identifying and promoting home-based enterprise opportunities that members can take small loans from the SHG to start, like raising silk cocoons or cultivating lac. As of 2010, PRADAN worked with over 13,000 SHGs across 8 states comprising over 177,000 rural women members and total savings of 459 million rupees. Key roles of SHGs include mutual aid, financial services, livelihood planning, and social empowerment.

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    PRADAN works to promote self-help groups (SHGs) of rural poor women in India. They provide guidance and support to help SHGs fulfill their goals. This includes identifying and promoting home-based enterprise opportunities that members can take small loans from the SHG to start, like raising silk cocoons or cultivating lac. As of 2010, PRADAN worked with over 13,000 SHGs across 8 states comprising over 177,000 rural women members and total savings of 459 million rupees. Key roles of SHGs include mutual aid, financial services, livelihood planning, and social empowerment.

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    PRADAN

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    Sachin Pethkar
    PRADAN works to promote self-help groups (SHGs) of rural poor women in India. They provide guidance and support to help SHGs fulfill their goals. This includes identifying and promoting home-based enterprise opportunities that members can take small loans from the SHG to start, like raising silk cocoons or cultivating lac. As of 2010, PRADAN worked with over 13,000 SHGs across 8 states comprising over 177,000 rural women members and total savings of 459 million rupees. Key roles of SHGs include mutual aid, financial services, livelihood planning, and social empowerment.

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    PROMOTION OF SHGS

      

    Pioneers in promotion of SHGS in India First SHG in Alwar, Rajstan, in1987 Saving & credit for rural women

    WHAT IS SHG ?
    An informal association of 10 to 20 poor women of same village & of same socioeconomic background  To gain identity as individual utilizing immense power of mutual aid  Platform from where they can access banks & public services & spearhead changes that affect them as poor women
    

    ROLE OF PRADAN
         

    Nurture SHG of rural poor women to fulfill its mission & goal Provide guidance Support and assistance Identify & promote home-based enterprises called as HONEY BEE activities It includes myriad of activities Member of group takes loan from SHG to start their home based enterprise

    EFFECTS OF PRADAN INTERVENTION


    Rural families with independent livelihood activities  Diversification & enhancement in their income
    

    WOMEN AT CENTRE OF HEART


    Comprise half of the countrys population  Most disadvantaged sector among the poor  Most effective in fostering change in their families and communities  As of march 2010, PRADAN works with 13,049 SHGS in 8 states with a total membership of 177529 rural women & total saving of 459 million rupees  Computer Munshi System
    

    KEY ROLES OF SHG


    Mutual help  Financial intermediation  Livelihood planning  Social empowerment
    

    FOREST BASED LIVELIHOOD

    WHAT THEY DO ?
        

    PRDAN works with Adivasis & poor who live near forests trees are their source of livelihood Deforestation decreased income for this communities Forest & tree based livelihood interventions in Jharkhand & Orissa Consists of Tasar cocoon production, Lac cultivation, & produciton and trading of siali leaf plates

    Farm forestry also taken as a part of program on integrated natural resource management  In all 4,964 families involved in various activities
    

    FROM WHERE PRADHAN GET AID


    

    PRADAN is supported by
    Government department such as Agriculture & the Ministry of Textile  No of resource institutions such as the central silk board & the Indian Lac Research Institute
    

    LAC CULTIVATION
         

    Insect Lac lives on sap of certain trees & secrete lac Resin Processed resin called as Shellac Shellac has several industrial application in food & drug industries Lac rearing & cultivation is a traditional occupation Source of income for thousands of poor (eastern India) Most of potential is untapped

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