Doing Gender, Doing Geography by Saraswati Raju Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

Author:Saraswati Raju, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt [Saraswati Raju, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Human Geography, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies
ISBN: 9781136197352
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2012-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

An important element of government schemes for microcredit-based livelihood-generating activity is training for running an activity. It is not enough for women to merely attend meetings — they should be trained to have self-confidence to participate effectively through active speaking and listening. In the case of SHGs, training is not attended by all members of the group. The number and percentage of members attending training programmes per group vary widely. On an average, 57 per cent of women attended training. It has been observed that women who did so, work better than those who did not.

Skill development and capacity building for sustainable livelihood-generating activities for women should start with an assessment of what women already possess (Garba 1999). However, in this case, no such assessment was done to identify the existing skills of women before arranging training programmes for them. There are cases where elderly women, already adapted to making puffed rice try hard to develop the skill of making jute bags. In such cases, they rarely develop the new skill and cannot be work–time efficient. Therefore, skill development and capacity building have received a serious setback due to implementation of training programmes without proper assessment of the existing skills of women.

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