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To support women’s work by providing a range of inputs, with especial focus on training for skill upgradation, and marketing linkages, in 8 sectors in which there is a high proportion of women workers: Dairy, agriculture, small animal husbandry,
fisheries, handlooms, handicrafts, khadi and village industries, sericulture.
Later, two more sectors, social forestry and waste land development, were added.
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Mobilising into groups to better address patriarchal constraints
Training, credit, marketing linkages – integrated package of inputs – to enhance productivity of women’s work and self employment
Higher incomes /economic empowerment will open up a pathway to overall empowerment
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Covering a large number of women and drawing more public resources towards them would change their role and status within the sector - move up the value chain, increase women’s overall contribution to sectoral output
Largely echoes the analysis in Shramshakti, National Commission for Self Employed Women and Women in the Informal Sector
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Over 55 percent of the total budget allocated to projects in 5 states (UP, Rajasthan, Orissa, Karnataka, and West Bengal)
In the period 1986-90, 44 percent went to dairy projects: share went up to 70-80 %.
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1994-5: by Planning CommissionConcluded that ‘the programme has
not made much dent on making the economic activities of the women more viable in view of the rising inflation’
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ISST 2006 Impact at level of sector only
perceptible in dairyingPoorest women excluded – self
employment too riskyTraining focus technical, not holisticNon-involvement of men can be
problematicAdministrative issues – delays, etc
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Examples:• A project leads to higher income or earning
potential: but does it address impact on unpaid work and care; what would change?
• Adult women find work, adding to household income and their own eco empowerment – but are there inadvertent outcomes – eg irregular girls attendance in school; reduced milk consumption of children?
• Women receive training for new forms of income generating activity: but cannot question/ change seclusion norms: eg carpet weaving for own use, not for market
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Training of adult women in growing medicinal plants for sale does not translate into actual production for the market: project did not factor in the fact of land ownership by men
Challenge: Seeking sustainable change, progress towards gender equality and ‘empowerment’ – but trajectories of change not pre-determined
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