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National Conference on Sustainable Self Help Groups (SHGs)

Date: 4 & 5, March 2010

Venue: YMCA Madras Youth centre, 6/74, Ritherdon Road, Vepery, Chennai-7

The growth of Microfinance sector in India has been significant over last two decades. Among different approaches and models of microfinance, Self Help Group (SHG) model is unique due to its outreach, development focus and empowerment of women. In India, more than 1.7 crore households have been organised under SHGs and their networks, becoming the largest microfinance endeavour. Despite tremendous growth and contributions of SHGs, there is a growing concern on quality of groups, increase in number of dysfunctional groups and challenges like continuity in linkages with banks, and multiple lending. The SHG members are facing the challenges of usury in the form of exploitative local money lenders and growing private microfinance institutions. On the other side SHGs in India remain to be the ‘populist’ programmes of state governments supported by larger bilateral donors. Any change in the policies and priorities of these institutions will have serious implication in the very existence of these SHGs.

There is a need for assimilating the wisdom of successful experiences and issues on sustaining SHGs and charting out way forward for policy advancement. DHAN Kalanjiam Foundation, a microfinance advancement initiative of DHAN Foundation in collaboration with INAFI-India, a pan India Network of development NGOs involved in promoting SHG-Bank linkage and INFOS, a national network of microfinance SHG Federations is hosting National Conference on Sustainable Self Help Groups (SHGs) with the focus of advancing the SHG movement in the country.

We request you to depute a correspondent to attend the conference and interact with the experts from Government, banks, academic institutions and NGOs.

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