“Self Help Groups (SHGs) in India: A Study on Quality and Sustainability” (2012)

ENABLE, a National Network Enabling Self Help Movement, presented the report titled “Self Help Groups (SHGs) in India: A study on quality and sustainability.”

Highlights of the Report

• There is a regional disparity in growth of SHGs.
• The poorest of the poor have not been able to access benefits of SHGs as SHG norms discourage them from joining.
• SHGs are mostly homogenous by social category, marital status and household economic activity; and heterogeneous by age.
• More than one-third of SHGs increased monthly savings of members over a period of time with their own interest to increase group corpus, and by the facilitation of ....