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STORY: INDIA / WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
TRT: 3.37
SOURCE: IFAD
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, MARATHI
DATELINE: 2-4 MARCH 2020, KARJAT, RAIGAD DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA STATE, INDIA / NOVEMBER 2019, VADAVALI VILLAGE, THANE, MAHARASHTRA STATE, INDIA
2-4 MARCH 2020, KARJAT, RAIGAD DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA STATE
1. Wide shot, self-help group with woman handing out accounting booklets
2. Close up, accounting booklet
3. Med shot, woman keeping accounting
4. Close up, writing on booklet with money next to it
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shraddha Joshi, Managing Director, MAVIM
“We started Tejaswini in the year 2007 with IFAD. In Tejaswini we adopted an integral approach for women’s empowerment, economic empowerment; getting translated into social and political empowerment.”
NOVEMBER 2019, VADAVALI VILLAGE, THANE, MAHARASHTRA STATE, INDIA
6. Close up, woman on tractor
7. Med shot, woman on tractor
8. President of IFAD iun traditional Maharashtra turban watching
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilbert F Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD):
“We are on the right track and we just need to continue in the track of giving the priority to our gender and mainstreaming the gender in all our projects.”
2-4 MARCH 2020, KARJAT, RAIGAD DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA STATE, INDIA
10. Med shot, women working in tailor shop
11. Med shot, woman operating paper plate manufacturing machine
12. Wide shot, woman watching worker milk buffalo
13. Med shot, milk poured into container jars
14. Med shot, woman in her retail shop with milk jar
15. Close up, woman pouring milk portion for sale
16. Wide shot, self-help group
17. Wide shot, Padmavati Chandrakant Gaikawad speaking to self-help group
18. SOUNDBITE (Marathi) Padmavati Chandrakant Gaikawad, Manager, MAVIM Karjat:
“I am very satisfied with kind of work I am doing. People give me respect. I gained self-respect, self-confidence, improved decision making, and people see me as problem solver.”
19. SOUNDBITE (Marathi) Neha Nilesh Thorve:
“After joining the self-help group I gained self-confidence. I was able to overcome my fear, I became friends with the members. Then those women elected me as a gram panchayat member.”
NOVEMBER 2019, VADAVALI VILLAGE, THANE, MAHARASHTRA STATE, INDIA
20. Wide shot, project meeting
21. Wide shot, President of IFAD speaking at meeting next to Dr. Shraddha Joshi
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilbert F Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD):
“You know, when we talk about if that mandate's been focussing on rural transformation, transforming the rural economy, this is what we're talking about.”
2-4 MARCH 2020, KARJAT, RAIGAD DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA STATE
23. Med shot, women celebrating mother holding baby
24. Close up, child
25. SOUNDBITE (Marathi) Rupali Pandurang Pawar:
“We celebrate when a girl is born so everybody feels happy. We want to elevate a girl's dignity by this celebration. Boy and girls should be equal; society will feel pride if a girl's stature increases.”
26. Wide shot, women clapping while Rupali Pandurang Pawar holds baby
In Maharashtra, India, one million rural women have gained access to financial services, and technical and business training, which gave them independence and improved status in their communities. Through the formation of self-help groups (SHGs) these women have been able to build more prosperous lives for their families, and to create more active public and private roles for themselves.
The SHGs were created by the Tejaswini Rural Women's Empowerment Programme, an initiative of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Maharashtra’s Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal (MAVIM).
Shraddha Joshi, Managing Director of MAVIM said, “we started Tejaswini in the year 2007 with IFAD. In Tejaswini we adopted an integral approach for women’s empowerment, economic empowerment; getting translated into social and political empowerment.”
IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo said, “we are on the right track and we just need to continue in the track of giving the priority to our gender and mainstreaming the gender in all our projects.”
He also said, “you know, when we talk about if that mandate's been focussing on rural transformation, transforming the rural economy, this is what we're talking about.”
As a result of the Tejaswini programme, nearly all of the SHGs have been able to access formal credit from banks, and they have a 99 per cent repayment rate. An added benefit is that by pooling their money together and loaning it to one another, women in SHG’s are supporting businesses that employ other women and open up opportunities for growth and advancement.
The SHGs are an effective means not just to improve the living conditions of poor households by starting nano- and micro-enterprises run by women. They are also forums for women to collectively address issues that affect women and to seek community-based solutions.
Padmavati Chandrakant Gaikawad is a beneficiary who is now a manager for MAVIM, leading women in Karjat to also become leaders. She said, “I am very satisfied with kind of work I am doing. People give me respect. I gained self-respect, self-confidence, improved decision making, and people see me as problem solver.”
Neha Nilesh Thorve, currently serves as a representative in the gram panchayat (a village-level elected local government body). She said, “after joining the self-help group I gained self-confidence,” adding that “I was able to overcome my fear, I became friends with the members. Then those women elected me as a gram panchayat member.”
It’s not just women who have changed, it’s the community, too. Rupali Pandurang Pawar just welcomed her second baby girl, and through SHG celebrations, the community has come to realize the value of the girl child.
“We celebrate when a girl is born so everybody feels happy,” she says, “we want to elevate a girl's dignity by this celebration. Boy and girls should be equal; society will feel pride if a girl's stature increases.”
