This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...

This paper investigates a women’s self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...

Apart from emphasising on outreach it is also important for micro finance intervention to remain sustainable in the long run. Financial sustainability is the core of any financial institutions and considering Self help groups (SHGs) as grassroots level organisations engaged in the business of...