Empowering Women through Self-Help Groups is a certificate programme designed to provide systematic information relevant to women’s social context. The programme aims to enhance women’s confidence, improve their interpersonal relations/ leadership qualities / general management abilities and also help them to acquire

access to credit and resources. Learners who clear the certificate programme from TNOU will be equipped as resource persons to train other change agents similarly situated in their regions / work sphere and establish their own micro-enterprise. The process will help to promote formation and sustainability of SHGs as well.

The main objectives are: Strengthen ongoing efforts to train facilitators / master trainers of SHGs; Evolve an effective sustainable in country training network / resource pool of trainers; Empower the change agents to function more effectively as trainers and community organizers in helping set up SHGs and to address gender issues; Provide guidelines for establishment of micro-enterprises; Provide basic legal literacy. Target Groups of the Certificate Programme comprise the supervisory level practitioners, trainers and implementers of self Help groups of Swaran Jayanti Gram Seva Rozgar Yojna (SJGSRY), Mahile Swasthya Santh (MSS), Rashtriya Mahile Kosh (RMK) etc, Non-government Organisations (NGOs) and any anyone else who is interested in either pursuing this course of study or work in an NGO in future or set up his/her own NGO

CWDL 1

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Self-Help Groups

Development through Self Help Groups