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Women Empowerment through SHG Federation

The Cluster Level Federations are a network of several SHGs and a structure or body evolved by SHGs themselves consisting of representatives from all member SHGs, with a motive of supporting member-SHGs attain the goals of economic and social empowerment of women members and their capacity building. In other words, it is an another forum for SHGs to step up development of women members taking advantage of collective effort of members SHGs, enabling a holistic and need based economic and social development. A SHG Federation is a democratic body formed with certain number of SHGs functioning in a specific geographical area with the objective of uniting such SHGs for common cause and for achieving these causes which an individual SHG would not be able to do. In short, the SHG Federation has to be necessarily of SHGs, by SHGs and for SHGs. The SHG federations by PEACE have been set up with the following objectives:-

To get access to policy making bodies through political empowerment and social mobility
To facilitate linkages between SHGs and banks/govt. agencies/local institutions
To have better access to development information and marketing linkages
To resolve any conflicts that may arise within member SHGs
To assist in strengthening the performance of member SHGs
To help in achieving sustainability of SHG
To strengthen (through training, information dissemination, on-site support, etc) the capacity of member-SHGs in one or more of a variety of fields (bookkeeping, accounting, marketing, financial management, advocacy, bank-linkage, accessing government schemes, to name some)
To undertake marketing of the produce of the members of the SHGs
To write and/or audit the accounts of member-SHGs
To review/regulate/supervise the functioning of member-SHGs
To promote new SHGs
To create the political/social space that women need to live their lives as fully as they desire to
To be the window to the outside world, in replacement of the promoter organisation
To undertake all that the external facilitator was undertaking, after its departure

Formation of SHG Federation

Self Help Group Formation is one the major activities of PEACE. SWAVIMAN, a federation has been going on gathering 120 SHGs of Mohan and Nuagada Block in Gajapati District. This federation with the help of PEACE mobilized loan fund from the local RGB Bank for their business development. PEACE has co-ordinate to imparting different vocational training programs for the development of SHGs. This is a regular activity of PEACE.