Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu

Enabling sustainable community development by empowering women at grassroots level as leaders and entrepreneurs.

MISEREOR; Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives; UNICEF; Merrimac Foundation; Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission

Adolph Furtado; Prema Gopalan

Beneficiary Spend:

Average: 83.5%

Highest: 98.7%

Lowest: 52.8%

Income:

Average: Rs2 cr

Highest: Rs10 cr

Lowest: Rs1 lac

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Empowerment of Women as Leaders and Entrepreneurs

• SSP aims to promote empowerment of women as leaders and entrepreneurs through self-help groups, social enterprises and community led initiatives. SSP acts as a facilitator of women leaders to manage savings, credit and micro-businesses, address local risk, and build community resilience.
• Programs: They serve marginalized communities through a fraternity of self-help groups, a microfinance institution that offers financial services to women-led businesses, rural schools of entrepreneurship for women, and a market aggregator that offers dedicated services to last-mile business women. They offer skills training, clean energy training, livelihood generation, disaster management, microfinance, rural marketing and health-enhancing opportunities to rural women.
• Outcome: 1) Improved quality of life to over 1 million low-income households across 2,000 villages of India. 2) 35,000 women launched as entrepreneurs resulting in an overall increase in income by ₹1,890 million. 3) 55,000+ women accessed ₹700 million of micro-loans. 4) 41,000 women empowered as farmers resulting in a collective increase in annual income by ₹5,160 million. 5) 30,000 acres of dry land converted to bio-farms.