Women-Led Community Empowerment and Development Programmes (WCEDP) in Baksa, Hojai and Morigaon Districts, Assam

Women-Led Community Empowerment and Development Programmes (WCEDP) in Baksa, Hojai and Morigaon Districts, Assam is a one year project (December 2017 to November 2018) supported by Caritas France. GGSS intends to further capacitate these SHG federations to work as community based multi-support centers for the SHGs under them in particular and the villagers at large to address the socio-economic issues in the target area. OBJECTIVES: -To capacitate the 5 Women SHG Federations under GGSS on Group management, Enterprises development and management of small scale businesses, sales and marketing strategies, advocacy and lobbying and resource mobilisation. -To capacitate the Women SHG Federations on financial management, inter loaning, banking procedures and SHG Auditing. -To strengthen the Women SHG federations capacities to work as a multi support centres in their target area benefiting the SHGs under them and the villagers especially the women, Differently able Persons, old people, youth, farmers etc as people friendly help desk centres on issues related to education, livelihood, employment opportunities, identification, applying and availing various schemes and benefits from different agencies. OPERATIONAL STRATEGY: - Promotion of SHG Federation wise Multi Support Centres in 3 target Districts. - Strengthening SHG Federations through capacity building trainings/workshops. - Livelihood improvement support for SHG Federations/SHGs.