The Rajiv Gandhi Mahila

Vikas Pariyojana

An Initiative of the Rajiv Gandhi

Charitable Trust

Mission for Poverty Reduction

& Women Empowerment in

Uttar Pradesh

Background

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Organization

Established

Scale-up

Institutional Model

Outreach of over one

million women

The distinct feature of poverty

in India is that the boats of

the poorest are nailed to the

sea-bed. When the tide rises,

they sink.

RGMVP: Theory of ChangeRGMVP: Theory of Change

they sink.

Often treated as dispensable

commodities by those more

fortunate, they are helpless

and unaware of even their

basic rights.

This is where initiatives like Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana come in.

Vision

To unleash the potential of the poor.

Mission

To initiate and encourage systematic social and economic transformations

by promoting confidence and connectivity among the poor using women

as agents of change through Self-Help Groups and their federations.

Our Goal

as agents of change through Self-Help Groups and their federations.

• Strengthening of SHGs

• Arrange line of credit to the SHGs

• Social action and helping members

• Support to VOs

• Secure linkage with Govt. Depts.

• Auditing of the groups

• Training hubs

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SHG Institutional Model

•Thrift and credit activities

•Participatory monitoring

of the groups

•Household Investment Plans

through Bank Linkages

•Group level poverty

reduction plans

• Social action and helping members

access their rights and entitlements

• Village development

• Support activities

SHGs 94,854 with more than 11 lakh families covered as on

July’’’’13

3195

VOs

94,854 SHGs

Enabling the poor to choose right

livelihoods

Enabling the poor to tackle social

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Poor have strong desire and innate ability

to come out of poverty. Psychological, social,

economic and political obstacles suppress this

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Core Beliefs

The Change Model

Identification of the poor

Organizing the poor

Building the capacities of the poor

Enabling the poor to accumulate and

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Social mobilization is needed to

unleash the innate abilities. But

it isn’t automatic and needs to

be induced

Poor can come out of poverty only

through their own institutions

Poor have a strong spirit of volunteerism

Change Model: RGMVP’s uniqueness

1. Women as the focal point

• Mobilize one woman from each family.

• She reaches out to entire family

• She in turn organizes 6-7 more women from her

community.

• Therefore, creating a network of women coming

together to build their own platforms .

3. Community Resource

Development Centre (CRDC) for

supporting scale up interventions

• CRDCs are strategically located in the

most undeveloped regions of the

state of Uttar Pradesh.

2. Federations as Platforms and Community

Institutions

• The SHG Federation (VO) at GP level has the capacity

to reach out to the entire village (GP).

• Collectives of VOs in a block together form the block

organization impacting the same as well as other

blocks.

• They socially and economically link villages, blocks and

subsequently districts in UP.

• Have the potential to introduce long-term and

sustainable behavioral change.

• Incubate social capital in few

resources blocks and expand the

outreach on their own.

• Operate through an ‘auto-catalytic’

process.

• Provide convergence, training and

delivery systems to the SHG nurturing.

• So far 172 women have been trained

and nurtured

Facilitating &

fostering self-managed

institutions of the poor

Micro Finance and Livelihood

Enhancement through

SHG-Bank Linkages

While mobilizing SHGs is a key driver of expansion, RGMVP’s

vision is a multi-pronged and holistic approach

Institution

and

Capacity

Building

Community Based Nutrition

and Sanitation Programme

Community-Based

Healthcare

Community Initiatives

for quality education

Project Management,

Monitoring & Learning

RGMVP: Key Strategies

1. Participatory identification of the Poor (PIP)

2. Social Mobilization through:

• Community Resource Person (CRP) Strategy

• Internal Social Capital (ISC) Strategy

• Samooh Sakhi Strategy

• Cascading institution Model operating in an autocatalytic manner

3. Capacity Building

• SHG and federation Trainings

• Samooh Sakhi Trainings

• Exposure Visits

• Refresher Trainings

4. Developing Community Cadre and Nurturing

5. Campaign Mode

6. Resource Block Organizations

• 35 Resource Block Organizations across the programme area

• Over 30,000 Social Capital

RGMVP: Rahi- Resource Block Profile

Rahi Block

Rae Bareli District

RGMVP Phase I

Lalganj CRDC

Social Capital Number

Number of SHGs mobilised 2518

Total Samooh Sakhis 1512

Total VO Swasthya Sakhis 53

Bank Sakhis 53Bank Sakhis 53

Internal Social Capitals 360

ISC- IB and Health 5

CRPs 207

CRDI Team Members 1

Programme Incharge from

the Community

15

Community Volunteers 4

SHG Bookkeepers 45

Position as of July’13

Financial Inclusion

RGMVP’s Strengths

� Banks owning up the initiative

� Promotion of Cash Credit Limit

� Credit support just after three

months of formation

� Credit up to 10*savings (or Rs. One

� Bankers Exposure Visit

� Second Credit Linkage

� Credit utilisation workshops

focusing on livelihood � Credit up to 10*savings (or Rs. One

lakh) per SHG

� Family Development Plan

Livelihood Enhancement

Sustainable Agriculture

� Training on SRI and SWI

Methods, Compost Making

� 60%+ increase in productivity

through SRI & SWI

� 600+ Agri. CRPs trained

Dairy and Non-farm Activities

� More than 150,000 litres of milk

collected by Mother Dairy from

about 30000 SHG households daily

� 600+ Dairy CRPs nurtured for

promoting best practices� 600+ Agri. CRPs trained

� 55,000+ women exposed to best

practices

promoting best practices

� Training initiatives for non-farm

activities – 300 silai schools

UP Punjab India

Raebareli Sultanpur

Average

productivitySWI

Average

productivitySWI

2627 4179 2619 2058 2819 2580 5462.72

Kg/ha

Productivity of Wheat- SWI Impact

2627 4179 2619 2058 2819 2580 5462.72

Source: www.indiastats.com

As per 2005-06 data

SWI data as per crop cutting experiment (n=35)

Present productivity of UP is 3113Kg/ha

Haryana had highest productivity among all the states in the year 2011-12 i.e. 5030 Kg/ha.

Uttar Pradesh Tamil Nadu IndiaSRI intervention in

project area

2358 4179 2393 4480.2

Kg/ha

Productivity of Rice- SRI Impact

Source: www.indiastats.com

As per 2011-12 data

SWI data as per crop cutting experiment (n=30)

Savings corpus of INR 450

million

INR 2.70 billion in loans

availed from banks

Membership more than

11,09,863 women

SHGs

Key Impacts- As of July 2013

SHGs

94,854

VOs-3195

BOs-87

42,210 self managed SHGs

Training to 55,000 +

farmers on sustainable

agriculture methods

Milk procurement

150,000 liters per day

Linkages with

Government

Departments & NRLM

Institutional Delivery – 89%

Pregnancy and Birth

Registration– 100%

Partners

� Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

(BMGF)

� Community Empowerment

Lab@Shivgarh

� MicroSave

� Rural India Supporting Trust

� Save A Mother Foundation

� SERP, Andhra Pradesh

� Thrive Energy

� UNICEFMicroSave

� NABARD

� NDDB

� Nationalized Banks and Rural Banks

� Population Council

� Public Health Foundation of India

(PHFI)

� Rajiv Gandhi Foundation

� UNICEF

� USAID

� University of Wisconsin

� Usha International Ltd

� DFID

� SIDBI

Visitors’ Testimonials

Systematic women’s self-help group organisations acting as enablers to help poor

access various government schemes. – Dr. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist, World

The women have been able to bring about change… They have the strength to solve

their own problems and not do not feel the need to complain to others. I think that is

the biggest achievement of the programme. – Shri Omar Abdullah, Hon. Chief

Minister, Jammu and Kashmir

Women had successfully resolved conflicts and they narrated touching stories of

mutual help … They were proud to have taken off the veil … They proudly narrated

stories of how they go out to other villages to organise women …The outreach now

reportedly extends to 7 lakh women across 40 districts. To my knowledge this is the

largest outreach and mobilisation created by an NGO in the country.

– Mr. Deep Joshi, founder PRADAN, NGO activist and Magsaysay

Awardee

Systematic women’s self-help group organisations acting as enablers to help poor

access various government schemes. – Dr. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist, World

Bank

THANK YOU.

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www.rgmvp.org

RAJIV GANDHI MAHILA VIKAS PARIYOJANA

619, Kanpur Road, Rana Nagar, Raebareli: 229001,

Uttar Pradesh, India