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Tejaswini
Rural Women's Empowerment Programme
This programme focuses on women's development, building on lessons learned from the earlier IFAD assisted Tamil Nadu Women's Development Project, Maharashtra Rural Credit Project and multi-state Rural Women's Development and Empowerment Project. These operations have shown that women's self-help groups are an effective means of improving the living conditions of poor households. The objective is to enable poor women to have a wider range of choices and opportunities in the economic, social and political spheres so they can improve their own well-being and that of their households. The programme will support and strengthen women’s self-help groups and their apex organizations, and it will provide them with access to financial services, fostering linkages with banks and supporting microfinance institutions. The programme will improve livelihood opportunities by developing participants’ skills, fostering market linkages and providing market and policy support. It will create access to functional literacy and labour-saving infrastructure, and it will strengthen women’s participation in local governance. It will also support government policies that empower women and develop the capacity of executing agencies. Source: IFAD |
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