In recent times, everyone is pointing on the empowerment of women. Its right to say that women’s empowerment has become the necessity of the time. Women should possess liberty, faith, and self-worth to opt for their needs and demands. Discrimination based on gender is useless and is having zero worth by looking at the growth of women in the last few decades.
Major thrust has been given on community level human resource development through formation and strengthening Self Help Groups and Community Based Organization. Total 320 WSHGs yet to form by our own initiation in all part of operational areas under the programme. As a result big push of paralegal programme as a key mechanism for social legal insecurity have been successful in changing mental strength and confidence to fight against social evils. Thrift and credit programme is the empowerment process, which was economic system, had been control by SHG women members. Micro credit is good focal point, which has reduced dependency on the money lender. It has totally stopped to credit from shuker or Money lender who use to changing high interest which was they exploited. The objectives behind the various linkages, basic need are meets and the people become capable of living without help to others. In this process we took an awareness building for their capabilities and enable them for improving of their health, education and income generation activities uplifting economic status. KGNT provided for the economic opportunity through their active participation in thrift and credit affairs and women empowerment become reality. The organization has been enhancing the life quality women of disadvantage communities by introducing different income generation activities with the support of Government agencies and through credit linkages with bank. Major emphasis was given on developing forward backward linkages with other agencies to carryout hosting programme at their own. For the purpose, net working with credit institution and Govt. agencies has already been made on behalf of the project. Project activities targeted all members of the community including community leaders, women, men and children. Domestic Violence Awareness workshops were given to all beneficiary groups with each workshop catering especially to and for the target group. Activities for the community as a whole included Public Forums, where community members met together to identify the problems within the village in terms of violence and put together a plan on how to find out the issue in each village. The performance brought laughter and sadness to the audience. Throughout the play, the audience was nodding their heads, as they know all too well the reasons behind domestic violence. At the end of the performance active discussions took place within each of the communities.
Capacity building is a process of empowerment to enable the people to manage the activities by themselves, during and after our intervention. As a facilitator KGNT views its intervention as tool for capacity building and focuses on organization building and Human resource development. The major thrust was to enable the community organization and women Groups to secure access to civic amenities and facilities offered by the Govt. Agencies.
The women empowerment frame work reconceptualises the development objectives of Gender responsive programme. Rather than focusing on economic objectives, such as enabling women to be more productive or use their time more effectively in order recap the benefits of developments, its views women equality and empowers development objectives in their own rights. Empowerment is process aimed at changing the nature and direction of systematic force, which marginalize women and other disadvantage sections in giver contest.
In implies fundamental redistribution of power within and between families/societies and externally induced process or mechanism of change towards women equality and development. In this process KGNT identified a number of issues for support: Violence against women: women rights through women empowerment: their rights property: and greater participation of women in the decision makes process at family, group, federation and local self Government level.
Traditionally, women have kept to the background in our operational areas where we serve, but the past few decades have seen radical changes. Women have become more visible, vocal and active in public arena. The change has come about partly for economic reasons and partly because of growing awareness of the rights of women. KGNT promote democracy, advocacy and good governance; mobilize people support for honest leadership. As a result women group members are now directly represented in local government. More and more women represents people representative, as the most abused and silent majority, slowly but surely are being empowered.
Due to regular training, exposure, meetings mobilization women towards to stop the unauthorised country shop in the villages. The liquor is the most important issue at the village level which may be risk full for thewomen in the society hence the SHG members are facilitated to raise voice against liquor in their villages through rally. A Case Study “Malpara” village in Kandetara gram panchyat under komna block is in the district of Nuapada. Five women SHG were formed consisting 70 women members have been enrolled. Due to easy availability of liquor in MadaKuthi‘(unauthorized liquor shop) in the village, alcoholism among the male members was fast increasing day by day. Under the influence of liquor the torture meted to the women by their husbands, reached on intolerable stage. Such helpless condition motivated women members of five SHGs and they meet Collector Nuapada and request her to stop MadaKuthi‘ in their village. Plan to meet the Collector Awaiting to meet collector at Nuapada.
As a consequence the selling of liquor has been stop in the village and initiatives are getting momentum to launch similar direct action in nearby villages namely Danajhula‘ in Gandamer‘ gram panchyat to stop preparation and sell country liquor at Madakuthi‘
The KGNT started integrated community development programmes, since inception 2001 of health education, environment protection programme, and Income generation activities in the district Nuapada. Women Empowerment Project has been taken up through strengthening and established thrift & credit groups in the initial of the program. This is the empowerment process which has economic system have been controlled by the community people. Actively works with community organization and groups to help them access government resources and scheme. Also emphasis given towards self employment training to the women to the WSHG members like Tailoring, Beauty parlour, Four wheeler Driving training, Computer Education and
Gone are the days when the women were even afraid to identify themselves by names. Now they can come to the project’s office at Kandetara, Nuapada to present their problems. We regard this as a significant change. Local animators have played an important role in the process.
Comparing the present with the past SumoniSabar of Mahulbhata says…, “there is a big difference but I do not know which yardstick to use to measure the transformation. However, I can say with confidence that in earlier times the women were only somehow managing their lives, today they are actively engaged in self-betterment.
Empowerment enables the people to think and solve their problems by themselves, a continuous process which helps the people to live better. It has always been a great challenge to work for creating awareness and empowering people in remote areas. But we did not give up that easily. Firstly, we learnt to respect each other and trust our team. We worked closely and used varied skills to solve the problems. It enabled us to go forward for the development of the disadvantaged step by step. Through information about village helped to minimize the obstacles and sensitize the leaders about the empowerment process and establish a close relationship. We started to participate in community meetings. While in the meetings we started to discuss about our objectives with the people openly and tried to share their opinion through their leaders. This tool showed good results. We also started spending all our time with the community.
It is often difficult to see the change in these communities. Critical eyes are needed to see the actual change. However, we felt proud when the community leader of Kandetara said that the women of the same village went to their office to discuss about their problems face to face and without any hesitation. Now we can say with confidence that in earlier times the women were only somehow managing their lives, today they are actively engaged in self-betterment.
Creation of awareness on vocational education is one of the priority areas of the organization. The organization has been paying a greater attention for vocational training as it has been the demand of the day. Livelihood & Vocation training to enhance individual employability, reduce the mismatch between demand and supply of manpower in the context and demands in emerging economic scenario.Improving women’s financial status has been a priority by KGNT from the beginning. Women’s access and control over money has definite positive impact at multiple levels. On their own interest they have approached us for skill training on Tailoring & cutting of readymade Garments to them.
organization. The organization has been paying a greater attention for vocational training as it has been the demand of the day. Livelihood & Vocation training to enhance individual employability, reduce the mismatch between demand and supply of manpower in the context and demands in emerging economic scenario.Improving women’s financial status has been a priority by KGNT from the beginning. Women’s access and control over money has definite positive impact at multiple levels. On their own interest they have approached us for skill training on Tailoring & cutting of readymade Garments to them.Mrs. SarawatiMajhi, DWO, Nuapada explained by her lecture duringopening of training program the purpose and utility of Initiative training program which is believed to be one of the dynamic program of DWO for OBC candidates. The main objectives behind the program to build capacity of aimed at providing skill on Tailoring to women, destitute or drop out girls who could not continue their education in school they can earn for their family after completion of the training and she distributed Training Kit to all participants on that day.Additional to that credit linkage were made with Credit unit like UGB Budhikomna and Tarbod Branch financed for implement the individual scheme on tailoring.
The organization has been paying a greater attention for vocational education as it has been the demand of the day. This will help prepare the plan activities of SHG members for additional income of family. The main objectives behind the training program to self-employment opportunities as well as increase family income. And they can develop their value & skill out of traditional education in the life. Also they can start business by taking loan from the credit institution if they financially weak. Beauty industry is growing day by day and affecting the economy. Therefore, there is a vast scope for people who are interested in makeupp and other styling activities in the industry. Moreover, industry is going to grow more in the future and need more professionals and makeup artists to meet the demand. To become a makeup artist, they need to pursue the beautician course in which they will learn about different techniques of doing makeup and styling. After the complete the course, they can work in different places and enhance the look of people. Mostly, Participants who pursue this course aim to work in spas, films, television sets, the media industry, etc. However, there are various other options available for the graduates of this course to build their careers. Specifically, they can work privately and open their own shops to provide service for general people. There is a need for efficient management for the marketing and
service for fulfil the customers need. We discussed with participants establish shop as per the location where need the parlour shop.
The main objectives behind the program to build capacity of aimed at providing computereducation to women, destitute and drop out girls who could not continue their education in school. They can engage in Govt. and Non Govt. and also can able to entry data by their own house by taken work order from the Govt. and Non Govt. Organization. During the training Mr. NareshSharma, DYC, visited the centre along with Dr.S.P.Behera, Retired Principal National Collage, Nuapada. Mrs. RajashreePanigrahi, lecturer of JNV, discussed with the participants aboutthe training progress and confidence. Training covered to participants of young Girls can reinforce health as well as empowered with knowledge vital messages. Participants highly motivated and they learn themselves and feel a sense of pride. Besides the regular activities on different training has been doing among the partisans and cover soft skill training, play game, song competition, quiz competition etc. As a continuous process, assessment establishes measurable and clear participants learning outcomes for learning, provisioning a sufficient amount of learning opportunities to achieve these outcomes, implementing a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches expectations, and using the collected information to inform improvement in student learning. The final purpose of assessment practices in education depends on the theoretical framework of the practitioners and researchers, their assumptions and beliefs about the nature of human mind, the origin of knowledge, and the process of learning.
The term women empowerment is all about authority, or the power embarked on women sharing indistinguishable rights. The term refers to the liberation of women from socio-economic restraints of reliance. Women comprise around 50% of the country’s population, and a bulk of them stays economically dependent on each other without employment. Changes in Women’s Attitude- Women should empower themselves by becoming to be aware of their oppression, indicating initiative, and confiscating chances to bring a shift in their status. Empowerment must come from within the soul. Women need to empower themselves by bringing a major change in their attitude.
Active participation on women’s day celebration on 8th March as per the calendar planning. Observation were organised every year in different placeswith the SHG Members, students and community leaders and Honourable guest from the Govt, and non Govt. organization. Our observation is that all active participation by women in every and each meeting organised by the KGNT. Main objective behind the programme increased critical mass of women's visibility as impressive role models in every aspect of life and women have gained true equality but unfortunate fact is that women are still not paid equally to that of their male counterparts, women still are not present inequal numbers in business or politics,and globally women's education, health and the violence against them is worse than that of men. However, great improvements have been made. So each year the world inspires women and celebrates their achievements. Mrs. Panda, Chief speaker, expressed the present scenario and compared the past in increasing gender equality, women empowerment and human right of women. He also pointed that discrimination in gender and violence against women not reduced in the locality, so how to ensure equal participation and opportunities in all spheres of life. Need development of women education and empowerment of women.
Participation of women on celebration of yoga day on 21st June out of our expectation. The International Day of
Yoga aims to raise awareness worldwide of the many benefits of practicing yoga. Today it is practiced in various
forms around the world and continues to grow in popularity. Yoga is an ancient physical, mental and spiritual
practice that originated in India.
The word ‘yoga’ derives from Sanskrit and means to join or to unite, symbolizing
the union of body and consciousness. The International Yoga Day (IYD) is celebrated every year on June 21 to highlight
the fact that yoga can contribute in a holistic way to achieving equilibrium between mind and body.
The Organization has been enhancing the life quality men & women of disadvantage communities by introducing different
income generation activities with the support of Govt. resources & through credit linkage with Bank. SHG Members
implemented different schemes such as goat rearing, sheep rearing, dairy farming, spice making Tailoring,
rice processing and leaf plate making etc.