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The Rajiv Gandhi Mahila
Vikas Pariyojana
An Initiative of the Rajiv Gandhi
Charitable Trust
Mission for Poverty Reduction
& Women Empowerment in
Uttar Pradesh
Background
2002 20132007
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
87 BOs
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
problems
Creating safety nets for
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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