About the Book: Self-Help Groups and Women Empowerment
Women empowerment and gender equality has been recognized as the important
components of Millennium Development Goals. Empowerment is the process of
building capacities of creating an atmosphere which enables people to fully
realize their creative potential in pursuance of quality of life. It is an
active, multidimensional process which enables women to realize their full
identity and powers in all spheres of life. Self help groups are proved to be
very fuitful not only for the empowerment of women but also for the holistic
community development. The role of Self help groups are vital to implement all
the development programme