Designing Secondary Institutions of SHGs

This paper focuses on the theme of designing federations of self-help groups engaged in savings and credit activities. It is based on the available literature and discussions held with voluntary development organizations working in Andhra Pradesh.

Price : Rs. 50/-

Status of SHG Federations in Andhra Pradesh

This paper focuses on the status of SHG federations based on the assessments carriedout by APMAS till 2003. It gives an overview of SHG federations, variations amongvarious models of federations in Andhra Pradesh. The major findings focus on issues like governance and strategy, resources, asset quality, development and impact,efficiency and profitability in federations.

Price : Rs.100/-

APMAS: Ensuring Quality in Self Help Banking-An Assessment

This assessment will be useful for a variety of stakeholders who are interested in the state of SHGs in Andhra Pradesh and the future of the Sector.

Price : Rs.200/-

National Workshop on SHG Federations - A Report

This report is based on a national workshop. It provides a critical review of experiences in promoting SHG Federations across India . It focuses on best practices related to promoting sustainable member - designed, member - owned and member managed SHG Federations.

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Workshop on Andhra Pradesh Sustainable Livelihood Strategy

The report is based on the above workshop. The document has been shared across for wider dissemination of best practices identified and strategies suggested from the experiences in Livelihoods promotion. (APMAS has published two special issues of Mahila Sadhikaratha - news magazine on Livelihoods in August and November. The Livelihoods resource book developed by BASIX in collaboration with Ford Foundation has been adapted in to Telugu).

Government - NGO Collaboration

The report is based on the various workshops organized at the state and district level in AP on strengthening NGO and GO Collaboration in various programmes, projects and schemes. The report provides a deeper understanding on the issues and problems related to various poverty reduction programmes implemented by NGOs and Government. It also provides some of the possible mechanisms for effective Government and NGO partnership.

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'Managing Scale' - Two Day State Level Workshop on SHGS

This report is based on a workshop organized for discussing the various issues in functioning of the institutions involved in thrift and credit. It provides a list of recommendations for the various players in the sector like SHGs, NGOs, bankers and government. It also has a clearly spelt out plan of action by each of the players for improving the quality of movement as well as managing the outreach.

Price : Rs. 50/-