• To get access to policy making bodies t hr ough political
empowerment and social mobility
• To facilitate linkages between SHGs and banks/govt. agencies/local
institutions
• To have better access to development information and marketing linkages
• To resolve any conflicts that may arise within member SHGs
• To assist in strengthening the performance of member SHGs
• To help in achieving sustainability of SHG
• To strengthen (through training, information dissemination, on-site
support, etc) the capacity of member-SHGs in one or
more of a variety of fields (bookkeeping, accounting,
marketing, financial management, advocacy,
bank-linkage, accessing government schemes, to name
some)
• To provide credit, especially multiple credit lines
• To provide savings facilities, especially voluntary savings
• To undertake marketing of the produce of the members of the SHGs
• To provide life/loan insurance services
• To provide staff support to member-SHGs
• To write and/or audit the accounts of member-SHGs
• To review/regulate/supervise the functioning of member-SHGs
• To promote new SHGs
• To create the political/social space that women need to live their
lives as fully as they desire to
• To be the window to the outside world, in replacement of the promoter
organisation
• To undertake all that the external facilitator was undertaking, after
its departure.