TY - BOOK AU - Singh Abhilasha TI - Women and self help groups SN - 978-93-82835-12-7 U1 - 338.90082 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New Delhi. PB - Axis Books Pvt. Ltd. N1 - 1. Empowering women through self-help groups 2. Self-help groups impact the lives of women in India 3. Microcredit empowers women 4. Self-help groups in India- A catalyst for women economic empowerment and poverty eradication 5. Empowering women through self-help groups: roleof distance education 6. Standards and principles of microfinance 7. Women's empowerment through self-help groups: Andhra Pradesh experience 8. Legal perspective and challenges for women's empowerment: Protection of Domestic violence 9. Women self-help groups in Orissa: challenges and opportunities 10. Self-help group: An effective Approach to women empowerment in India 11. DWCRA - A successful experiment to emancipate rural women 12. Organization, poverty and women: global perspectives 13. A state of the art of self-help groups in India 14. Case studies: NGO networking self-help groups in India 15. Tribal development through self-help groups 16. Economic security among rural women through self-help groups: An analytical Study N2 - Women's empowerment has long been a central feature of the partnership between IFAD and the Government of India. Key instruments for supporting women's empowerment are self-help groups, whereby 10-20 rural women from the same village, mostly poor women, come together to contribute two-weekly or monthly dues as savings and provide group loans to their members. The self-help group approach was not created by IFAD- supported operations, but IFAD has contributed to the mainstreaming of this approach in India ER -