We harness the power of women as breadwinners, community leaders and change-makers.

UNDER THE PROGRAMME SM&ID, CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT, NANAD GHAR, HCL-VEDP, SPECIAL SGSY, JICA AND NAI ROSHNI SUPPORTED BY SUDA-UP, NABARD, VEDANATA FOUNDATION, HCL FOUNDATION, DRDA, UPPFMPAP-JICA, NSKFDC, MoMA-GOI WE HAVE COLLECTIVISED OVER 12,000 RURAL & URBAN WOMEN TO FORM MORE THAN 1580 SELF HELP GROUPS AND 06 WOMEN ORGANISATIONS.

Women are our key agents for rural development. They play a critical role in transforming the economic, environmental and social landscape of communities. But limited access to credit, income generating activities and savings mechanisms mean they are often disempowered and confined to household duties. CTED facilitates women into groups and helps them rise to their full potential. Our Women's Federations are created for women and managed by women - not only empowering them economically, but giving them the confidence and critical mass to also tackle a variety of social problems they face in their communities.

CTED harnesses the power of women as breadwinners, community leaders and change-makers. By encouraging participation, building skills, empowering them economically and grooming them as leaders, we are empowering women to solve community problems and lead better lives.

Leather Cluster Development 05 SHGs

UPPFM&PAP - JICA 108 Forest SHGs

Social Mobilization & Institutional Building 180 SHGs

(SM&ID) 70 SHGs, 390 SHGs

Special SGSY & NEREGA Lite 31 SHGs Dependent Skill Training

Areas of Focus:

1. Promote Women's Self Help Groups

We help establish and support Women's Self Help Groups to enable women to save and access credit to support themselves and their families. Today our SHGs have a corpus of Rs 145.50 Lakhs.

2. Facilitate Income Generation

Our aim is to help women earn an income. We train and upskill them, help them start their own businesses and provide them with market linkages.

3. Linking Women to Schemes

We educate women, and familiarise them with government and non-government schemes – supporting and enabling them to avail the benefits.

4. Support the formation of Women's Federations

Our Women’s Federations represent the interests of Self Help Groups and women across regions, with an aim to resolve large scale grievances and issues. Today our Federations are providing women with access to finance and are improving women’s lives - helping them fight for their rights, tackle social issues and earn a respectable status in society.

Women Oriented Main activities undertaken

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT HIGHLIGHTS

1. 10 Federations (ALF & CLF) and Over 835 SHGs

With financial empowerment of women being the core of CTED women empowerment initiative, CTED has played a pivotal role in the development of 10 Women Federations – in Mirzapur, Amethi & Gauriganj ULB through support from SUDA-NULM. These Federations not only promote savings, credit and income generation, but also play a critical role in tackling key social issues impacting women members - including sanitation, domestic violence, tobacco and alcohol abuse. In 2014-20, CTED formed 640 new SHGs with a total of 6640 women members, bringing the SHG total to 835 across locations, with a total corpus of more than Rs.10 crore. Under this NULM program 485 groups were able to access a revolving fund support of Rs 10,000 each, and access to loans at subsidized rates for members to enhance existing, or start new, enterprises.

2. Capacity Building & Training of SHGs

Over the course of the reporting period, CTED organized 485 training programme for 640 SHGs leaders and her members on saving, leadership development, documentation of record, credit livelihood activities, and to lve social issue. Different training of Trainer on SHGs development were also held across project location i.e. Amethi, Mirzapur & Gauriganj ULB.

SOCIAL MOBILIZATION & INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (SM&ID)

SM&ID

We are empanelled with Resource Organization for Social Mobilization and Institutional Development (SM&ID) under National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM). Under SM&ID we have provided formation and handholding support to 275 urban SHGs in Amethi and Mirzapur district.

The assignment of the organization is as under -

SNAPSHOT OF WOMEN’S GROUPS

Women Capacity Building

Capacity-building initiatives are intended to help women make the transition from livelihood security/subsistence to enterprise growth. To prepare the women to understand enterprise, establish and operate enterprises, CTED have prepared business development service providers who can undertake their own operations as well as teach others. Capacity building for women especially for greater market access and control should be seen in terms of two phases of livelihood security and enterprise growth

Livelihood security: The attributes of this phase are: women are involved in rudimentary incomegenerating activities; with training, they begin to understand market channels and operations and the requirements for undertaking sustainable micro-enterprises; coping mechanisms are in place in generally non transparent and changing market relationships.

Enterprise growth: The attributes of this stage are: there is demonstrable capacity of women to act entrepreneurial; they have understanding of markets beyond the local; enterprises are yielding enough income for them to have become primary sources of income for the women with reduced dependence on intermittent wage labor.

Achievements

MODERN AGANWADI

Our primary focus is to start at the grassroots level with the holistic development of children and women who form the future of our nation. With this objective, we have reimagined Anganwadis as ‘Nand Ghars’ (The Home for a Young One), as centres of learning for children and women. These centres provide access to critical infrastructure in healthcare, education, skill development and women empowerment. It essentially takes the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) of the government forward. We aim to create model Anganwadis not just for infrastructure or services but also for community integration.

Every Nand Ghar renders services to 40 children. We provide hot cooked nutritious meals (dry and takehome rations during the pandemic), health and referral services and early childhood education. We also provide children in the 3-6 year category with an array of interactive teaching-learning methods offering highquality education. By recognising the regional context while creating and providing best-in-class coursework aligned with the State curriculum, we seek to be an aspirational pre-school delivering quality education and strengthening the child’s foundational years. Our Nand Ghars also house Poshan Vatikas (Nutrition Gardens) to provide organic fruits and vegetables for the holistic nutrition of the beneficiaries

By the end of the project period 900 out of 1800 members of women SHGs use their household resources in improving their food sufficiency and cash inflows, 50% of these families would achieve year- sustainable income generation activities through self micro-enterprises, long food sufficiency and cash surplus of Rs. 50,000 per annum at the end of the project period i.e. 2020-21 to 2021-22.