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Family Prosperity through
Women’s Collectives
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An Introduction to
Kudumbashree Thiruvananthapuram
24April 2015
Today, the bank
officer calls me Madam
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Mission Statement
“To eradicate absolute poverty in ten years through concerted community action under the leadership of Local Governments, by facilitating organisation of poor for combining self help with demand led convergence of available services and resources to tackle the multiple dimensions and manifestation of poverty, holistically”
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1992
Poverty Reduction experiment in 7 wards of Alappuzha Municipality
1994
Scaled up to entire Municipality; Tested in Rural areas of Malappuram District as Community Based Nutrition Programme
1995
2002
Launch of Kudumbashree Mission
2008
Full coverage in the State
Evolution
Unified bye-laws and organizational elections
1998
Expanded to all Urban areas
2015
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Autonomous Institution of women
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CDS
ADS
NHG • 10 to 20 women per group; one per family • 261,000 NHG across Kerala • 4.1 million members
• Federation of NHG at the ward level • Covers 98% of the State
• Registered apex Federation at the Local Government level
• Covers 100% of local governments in the State
Community Development Society
Area Development Society
Neighbourhood Groups
Three-tier organization of and by women is the foundation for change
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Working with local Governments
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Platforms for convergence between the women’s organization and
local governments make the three-tier model more effective
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Gram Panchayat
Ward
Gram Sabha
CDS
ADS
NHG
Synergies from Collective Action
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Women working and acting together not only empower women,
but also strengthen their families socially and economically
Social
Women’
Economic
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Empowerment
Institution Building & Capital Formation
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• Women's own autonomous institutional network covering
more than half of the families in the State
• Democratic election processs
• High levels of mainstream financial capital formation for
meeting household credit needs, through the NHG
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Community Funds Amount
Own Funds Rs. 2,073 crore
Bank Funds Rs. 2,712 crore
Internal Loans Rs. 8,540 crore
Community Resources
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• Low-cost model of community mobilization and
development action
• Resource Persons and Resource Institutions developed
from within the community
• Enterprise approach to service provision – training,
accounts and audit, business development services
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Enabling women to engage with markets from positions of strength
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• Self-help and micro-finance to meet family financial needs
• Food production through collective farming on leased land
• Off farm enterprises for milk, egg and meat production
• Non-farm enterprises in production and service sectors, including hitherto male preserves
• Value chain based interventions based on local natural, physical resources
• Community based market networks promoting local economic development
Economic Empowerment
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Achievements
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• Food and cash crop production in over 20,000 ha of leased
land by more than 60,000 women from landless or very
small landholding families
• Small businesses with turnover exceeding Rs.400 crores
per annum benefitting 1,20,000 families
• Widely recognized and valued “Kudumbashree” brand in
sectors as diverse as restaurants, food products, soaps &
detergents, taxi services, construction services etc.
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Food Production
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• Increase production of food
crops, especially staples and
nutrition providing crops
• Convert fallow land back
into production
• Women as “farmers”
What collectives of women can do
Garment making
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• Garments – home-based to apparel parks
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Crafts
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• Artisanal production to branded crafts
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Tourism
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• Responsible Tourism – Partnership with Government & Industry for managing destinations: supply of inputs, restaurants, guide-services etc.
What collectives of women can do
Transport Services
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• Bus service run by women
• Taxi services for women, by women
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Restaurants & Catering
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• Café Kudumbashree - restaurants & food courts
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Nutrition
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• Amrutham Nutrimix – Take home ration for Anganwadis under ICDS; 292 units with 2023 entrepreneurs
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The Kudumbashree Brand
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• Among the most popular ‘brand’ in Kerala – Food products, soaps & detergents, handicrafts
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Enabling community managed social security for those in need
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• Rehabilitation of destitute families through collaborative
programmes of women's organization and local governments
• Special schools at the village level for children with mental
challenges
• BUDS Rehabilitation Centres for rehabilitation of adults with
mental challenges
• Collectives of children for co-curricular learning, citizenship
education and ecological awareness
• Special initiatives for specially vulnerable (social, geographic)
groups
Social Empowerment
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Achievements
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• Over 100,000 extremely poor families supported through Asraya - community based rehabilitation programme, managed by women's collectives along with local governments
• Over 3,000 children with mental challenges from very poor families, supported for building new lives
• Over 9 lakh boys and girls part of Bala Sabha
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Rehabilitation of destitute families
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• Family-wise planning for support; funds provided by Local Government; implementation support and monitoring by Kudumbashree network
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Rehabilitation of persons with mental challenges
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• BUDS Schools: Run by the local government; Supported by Kudumbashree
• BUDS Rehabilitation Centres for adults
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Pain and Palliative care
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• Palliative care provided by volunteers from Kudumbashree network; NHG members providing emotional support
• Supported by Gram Panchayats & Health Department
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Holistic growth of children
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• Enabling children to develop in a holistic manner – providing for co-curricular learning and citizenship education
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Women working together to make the neighbourhood, community and society safer for women and girl children
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• Gender Self-Learning Programme – awareness generation among women of their relative status in Society
• Collective efforts to address violence against women and children
• Crime Mapping; Nirbhaya Project
• Snehita Helpline; Gender Corner
• Learning platforms for political education; women in local politics and governance
• 56% of women elected representatives in the local governments are from the Kudumbashree community network
Women’ Empowerment
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Local Governments and Women’s Collective working together
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Convergence for MGNREGS
• Very high women’s participation, irrespective of caste or class
• Women’s access to public spaces, space for solidarity building and skill acquisition
• Great exposure for women - Self respect and confidence in doing physical labour, improved physical fitness
• Primary federation (ADS) as mates
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Perambra Panchayat, Kozhikode district THEN
NOW
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Kudumbashree beyond Kerala
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Nationally, as part of National Rural Livelihoods Mission
• Model of women's institutions working together with
local governments being adapted in other States
• Micro Enterprise Development approach through
community based support eco-system being replicated
nationally into a new Scheme
And, internationally..
• Government of Ethiopia preparing to sign MoU for taking
up community institution building with Kudumbashree
support
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Aajeevika Kudumbashree National Rural Livelihoods Mission Kerala State Poverty Eradication Mission
National Resource Organization
Kudumbashree-NRO, III Floor, Carmel Towers, Cotton Hill, Vazhuthacaud PO Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 695014
keralanro@gmail.com
Thank you!