Women's Livelihoods : from Product to Market Pattals
(Leaf Pattals) of Santhal Parganas, Jharkhand
State
The objective of the study was to track the movement
of the product from the producer to the market, understand
the process, the costs, the people involved and make recommendations
for action.
Value chain of embroidery in Rajasthan
A value chain study subsector analysis of embroidery of
the high-volume middle market in W. Rajasthan was completed.
It traced the nature of the transactions and volumes involving
the manufactures and traders in Barmer district (the bulk
of the Rs. 150 crore annual business is concentrated here),
the women producers in Barmer as well as the women producers
in Bikaner who supply the manufacturers in Barmer (through
middlemen). It identified the needs of the traders and the
requirements of the suppliers in order to attract more business
from the traders and get more income.
From Grassroots Management Training to
Grassroots Enterprise
Management Services : An Approach to Empowering
Women through Enterprise
This paper analyses Grassroots Management Training or GMT
in the context of the significant role micro credit and
micro-enterprise initiatives play in poverty reduction for
women in the informal sector. It presents the outcome and
learning from a purely management training intervention
and analyses the move towards a range of business development
services in the operations of Udyogini that it calls Grassroots
Enterprise Management Services (GEMS).
The Scope for NTFP Enterprises in Sagar and Indore
, MP
The study was aimed to suggest alternative livelihood for
the women engaged in NTFP collection from the forest areas.
The major NTFPs selected for this study are chironjee, aonla,
bamboo, tendu leaves and palash leaves.The study suggests
measures to reduce the number of intermediaries in the product
to market chain and to value add the products.
