Vision Sustainable Self Help Movement in India

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VisionSustainable Self Help Movement in India
APMAS
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About APMAS

• Evolution of the concept During 1999-2001 APWF
  to APMAT to APMAS.
• A public society began work in July 2001
• A state level apex institution for strengthening
  SHGs SHG Federations, providing services in AP
  other Indian States.
• Areas of work include capacity building, rating,
  livelihood promotion and research advocacy.
• Services provided for a fee.
• Focus on SHPIs and SHG Federations

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APMAS Operational Area
Intensive state AP G5 Networking
states Extensive support Need based support
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APMAS Governance

• Board of Directors
• Mr. Kaki Madhava Rao, IAS (Retd)
• Ms. Nandita Ray
• Mr. Akella Laxmi Nageswara Rao, GM, Andhra Bank
• Mr.K.Raju, I.A.S
• Mr. Aluri Samba Siva Rao, CGM - NABARD
• Mr.C.V. Rao
• Ms. Vijayalakshmi Das
• Ms. Ramaprabhakar
• Mr. Jyothi Neelaiah, CEO, ASP
• Ms. P. Usha Rani
• Mr. P V A Rama Rao
• Prof. Sheela Prasad

• Prof. K.V. Raju
• Mr. Jayesh Ranjan IAS
• Mr. T. Vijay Kumar IAS
• Ms. Sudha Kothari
• Ms. Vidya Ramachandran
• Ms. K. Lalitha Kumari
• Ms. Hanumamma
• Ms. Hemalatha
• Mr.T.Chandrasekhar Reddy

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Areas of focus
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Collaborations Strategic Alliances
National Level
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CB components
CBNA / QA
Conducting ToTs for Core Team
Visioning Business planning
Building Social Capital
Developing Material
Modal Building
Establishment of required systems and processes
Handholding
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Institutional Development

• Support services to VOs
• Secure linkage with Govt. Depts.
• Auditing of the groups
• Social security risk management

• Support services to the SHGs
• Arrange line of credit to the SHGs
• Social action and link with PRIs
• Access services at village level

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• Thrift and credit activities
• Participatory monitoring
• of the groups
• Group level poverty
• reduction plans

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Journey Towards Intensive Support

• Cluster approach GoAP (SERP) collaboration
• Positioned five regional level teams in the field
  
• Agreements with IKP Project of SERP and AP Rural
  Livelihoods Project
• Intensive involvement in 8 districts and
  demand-based services in the remaining districts.
• SERP APMAS collaboration for results 68
  Mandals, 2051 Village Organizations (VOs) and
  46,225 SHGs.

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Journey Towards Intensive Support

• Partnership with APUSP
• Situational Analysis in Urban SHG Movement
• Support in development of CB Strategy
• Support in establishment of CRP/Resource Book
  Keepers system
• Established book keeping system
• Training to Staff of APUSP on SHG, SHG
  Federations- about 120 batches of trainings
• Intensive support in promotion of SHG Federations
  in three selected towns 102 federations 3600
  SHGs

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Journey towards strengthening the movement

• Trained more than 65,000 professionals
  para-professionals directly and 4,50,000
  indirectly on SHG federation through ToT.
• Rated more than 420 SHG federations.
• Livelihoods promotion through partnerships.
• Anchoring of 2 DLRCs to demonstrate sustainable
  livelihood support
• Conducted 32 research studies on issues relating
  to SHGs, microfinance women empowerment,
  migration and so on.
• Publication of monthly news letter Mahila
  Sadhikaratha
• Produced 34 publications audio-visual material.
• Facilitated National and state level advocacy
  events.
• Facilitator for GO-NGO collaboration in the
  state.
• Support the emergence of APMAS-type institutions
  in other states in India Rajasthan, Orissa,
  West Bengal MP.
• Exporting learnings from AP to other states.
• Launched SHG gateway website

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QA
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RESEARCH STUDIES -2006-08

• SHG-Bank linkage A Recurrent study
• Implications and impact of large loans to SHGs
• Quality issues in Micro Finance Sector of
  Rajasthan
• Community Investment Fund-Andhra Pradesh
• Rapid Study on Indebtedness in Nizamabad District
• Feasibility study on VO-Bank linkage
• Institutional Evaluation
• SHG Federations in India
• Migration A study with reference to AP-NREGS
• Quality Sustainability of SHGs in Assam
• Status of SHG Savings and Their Utilization

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Research, Advocacy Communications

• Research Studies
• SHG-Bank linkage study
• Competition in the MF sector in AP
• Financial Analysis of SHGs in India- A value for
  Money, for CGAP
• Optimizing SHG in India A study on lights and
  shades
• Advocacy Events
• National Level workshop on SHG federations
• State level District level workshops on SHGs
  GO-NGO collaborations
• Jathara- Joint programme with Asmitha
• Communications
• Papers-2, Event reports-5, Audiovisuals-4,
  CD-Rom-1, Research Studies-3, Technical
  Series-16, Monthly magazine-1, Posters-2

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Chief Minister of AP in the State level Workshop
on SHGs organized by APMAS
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National Conference on SHG Federations
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APMAS publications
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APMAS publications
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Building Sustainable institutions LH promotion

• District Livelihood Resource Centers Adilabad
  Kadapa Anchoring the Capacity building,
  knowledge base creation and information services
• State and District level workshops Forums for
  sharing of best practice and livelihood promotion
  activities-way forward
• AP Livelihood Learning Group Meetings/ workshops
  and forum for learning for practitioners in
  livelihood promotion
• GO-NGO collaboration NGO empanelling,
  coordination committees at state and district
  level
• Capacity building Module development, Training
  of Trainers and quality assurance, Mentoring to
  federations
• Research and field studies Research studies,
  case studies and action research
• Publications Reference materials, Training
  modules, posters, best practice and workshop
  documents
• Promotion of best practices

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DLRC Structure and Functions
APMAS as an Anchor in Adilabad Kadapa
Networking District Level
DWMA/IKP/CFM
PMU
Networking State Level
Services
DLRC
AMR APARD
Consortium
For Capacity Building
Others
CLRC
CLRC
CLRC
CB of Primary Stake holders and CBOS
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Dissemination Workshop by DLRC, Adilabad
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SHG Learning Center(A Training and Resource
Center of APMAS)

• Vision Center of excellence for professional
  development in building institutions of the
  poor, microfinance, livelihoods and social
  capital for sustainable self-help movement in
  India

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Flagship programmes of APMAS

• National Immersion Program
• ToT on Participatory Training Methodology
• ToT on the process of SHG promotion
• ToT on the process of Federation promotion
• ToT on Board roles responsibilities,
  conducting meetings and legal compliance
• ToT on accounting book-keeping
• ToT on financial management
• ToT on Visioning Process

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• Stepping towards
• Strengthening SHG movement in AP
• to
• Sustainable Self-Help Movement in India

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Future Strategy Vision Mission

• Vision
• Sustainable Self Help Movement in India
• Mission
• Enable Self Help Promoting Institutions to
  facilitate strong and vibrant SHGs, SHG
  federations and commodity cooperatives providing
  quality services to their members.
• APMAS believes in self reliance of community
  based organizations engaged in microfinance and
  livelihood promotion, strives for excellence in
  whatever it does and promotes women empowerment.
• APMAS will emerge as a national level support
  organization by influencing public policy to
  create an enabling policy and regulatory
  environment to support the self help movement .

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Major Thrust Areas (2006-2011)

• Consolidation of support to the SHG movement in
  AP
• Expansion to select states
• Facilitation of SHG Federations as sustainable
  Financial Institutions
• Building Capacity at all levels to Promote
  Sustainable Livelihoods
• Strategic partnership with NABARD GoI

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National Level Network of Resource Organizations

• Vision
• To emerge as a credible national network of
  resource organizations engaged in providing
  quality capacity building and other support
  services to sustain the microfinance movement in
  India, particularly the community based
  development finance initiatives for sustainable
  livelihoods.
• Resource Organization (G5)
• APMAS Andhra Pradesh
• Chaitanya Maharastra
• Center for microfinance (CmF) Rajasthan
• Indian School of Microfinance for Women (ISMW)
  Ahemadabad
• Reach India - Kolkata
• Funded by Ford Foundation
• APMAS would act as the nodal agency

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Expansion to other states

• Support to SDTT - To building capacity of SHPIs
  in Bihar UP
• Mission Shakthi, Government of Orissa Support
  in mentoring support to BMASS in Koraput
  Gajapati districts
• Capacity Building support to AKRSP in Gujarat
  Madhya Pradesh
• Collaboration with NABARD M.P., Assam Bihar

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APMAS

• Plot No 20, Road No 2 ,Rao Raju colony
• Banjara Hills
• Hyderabad-500 034
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• www.apmas.org, www.shggateway.in

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