What are the objective of Self Help Group (SHG) Federation?

 Self Help Group (SHG)

 

Experiences and literature shows that federation are set up with one or more of the following objectives :

• To get access to policy making bodies through  political empowerment and social mobility.
• To facilitate linkage between SHGs and bank/government agencies/local institutions.
• To have better access to development information and marketing linkage.
• To resolve any conflicts that may arise within member SHGs.
• To assist in strengthening the performance of member SHGs.
• To help in achieving sustainability of SHG.
• To strengthen (though training, information dissemination, on site support, etc.)the capacity of member SHGs in one or more of a variety of fields (bookkeeping, accounting, marketing, financial, management, advocacy, bank linkage, accessing  government  schemes, to name some).
• To provide credit, especially multiple credit lines.
• To provide savings facilities , especially voluntary savings.
• To undertake marketing of the produce.
• To provide life/loan insurance services.
• To provide staff support to member SHGs.
• To write and/or audit the accounts of member SHGs.
• To review/regulate/supervise the functioning of members SHGs.
• To promote new SHGs.
• To create the political/social space that women needs to live their lives as fully as they desire.
• To be the window to the outside world, in replacement of the promoter organisation.
• To undertake all that the external facilitator was undertaking, after  its departure.