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Formation and Strenghtening of CBOs
 Women with whom GPSVS intervenes have been organised into groups, named Kasturba Mahila Mandal with twin objectives:
- To promote active participation of women in social actions, and
- To develop small funds among the groups with the aim of delivery of micro credit among group members and save their families from the clutches of moneylenders
GPSVS has formed 235 women groups (Kasturba Mahila Mandal) in four block areas, particularly in the target villages. In addition 10 men's groups have also been formed. Their details at the end of March 2006 are given in the table below:
| Particulars |
Women Groups |
Male Groups |
Mixed Group |
Total |
| No. of savings credit groups (SCGs) |
235 |
10 |
- |
245 |
| No. of members |
3,728 |
207 |
- |
3,935 |
| SCG’s accumulated funds (without interest) |
Rs 1,731,909 |
Rs 66,449 |
- |
Rs 1,798,358 |
| SCGs’ income from interest and other sources |
|
Rs 782 |
- |
Rs 114,909 |
| Total assets of SCGs |
Rs 1,846,036 |
Rs 67,231 |
- |
Rs 1,913,267 |
Women groups themselves keep the records of saving and credit and group activities; they select group leaders on rotation basis. Training on promotion of savings and credit practices and other allied topics have been organised to enable the groups perform in a better way.
Skill development training are periodically organised to enable the women group members take agro-based income generation activities. Hundreds of women have been imparted training in basket weaving, sikki crafts, papad making and food processing. A few training in non-agro based income generation activities like tailoring have also been organised. All the women who have been imparted training are engaged in different income generation activities and supporting their families with additional income.
All Kasturba Mahila Mandal members have been made literate through women literacy campaign. The organisation believes that the literacy campaign is not an end in itself, but a mean for community organisation and mass education and awareness.
Major Achievements
- Effective check on activities of moneylenders
- Literacy campaign among Mahila Mandal members
- Taking SHGs financial support from government schemes
- Awareness regarding primary/reproductive health care for women and children through regular interaction with health workers
- Taking energetic role in the meetings of the groups, parents committee of adolescents' education programme and other social and cultural actions in the community
- Promoting sustainable agriculture activities in the groups
- A saving and credit cooperative society has shaped for sustainable development initiatives in the district primarily for rural women
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