Women Promotion Through Water Shed Management
The vitality of the environment plays a major role in the quality of life of the human community living therein. This is true in the context of rural society, which have a direct and symbolic relationship with the surrounding environment. The environment of our planet has been deteriorating over a period of time, enough to warrent serious concern. A lot of things is being rapidly depleted at an alarming scale. At this stage, watershed management and development is the key strategy for rural development and poverty alleviation. Watershed management is a unit of Natural Resource Management, which governs the natural laws. This represents a paradigm shift in the development approach that means old paradigm to new paradigm, where we emphasis on bottom up approach. There is the drastic change in the planning and implementation of the developmental programmes where now much emphasis is on the involvement of people in their own development and in this direction the voluntary organizations are also coming forward to help and support people by institutionalizing and strengthening them through the formation of SHG's, which can be seen as the good means to organize and motivate people to come forward to recognize their needs and to materialize them through their own intiatives and efforts. Self Help Groups (SHGs) are self manged groups of people who have come together to promote saving among themselves as well as pool savings for activities benefiting either individual or communities economically. In the eyes of society women have a status secondary to that of men. This process has been so internalised that even in her own eyes, a women identity is derived either from that of her father, her husband or her male children. As we are talking about women promotion, women are the back bone of the family and family makes the society. A set of society makes country.
To make women SHG, which helps to reduce gender bioness and to make society strong, which leads to rural development. There are certain impacts which can see through successful running of Women SHG.
• Migration : After the agricultural season is over, a large number of families migrate in search of work. This has serious consequences for the education of the children as well as for the quality of life of the family. Now, with adequately remunerated work being undertaken on a sustained basis within their own watershed, villagers are no longer forced to leave.
• Education : In several watershed it has been observed that reduced migration results in an increase in the number of school going children and an increase in the schooling period. In addition, parents no longer require their children to undertake activities such as sheep and livestock herding in order to supplement family income.
• Basic health and hygiene : Improvements in basic health and hygiene are a direct consequence of enhanced nutrition; access to clean drinking water; improved living conditions; basic knowledge of promotive health and prevention of diseases; and accecc to basic health facilities.
• Income Generating Activities : Through interloaning and intraloaning, women are starting income generating activities like general stores, polutary farm dairy farm etc. through this way women are mixing with the mainstream. Activity started by the women are more encourage by men because benefits also go to them.
• Status and decision making : Wage supported watershed measures enable women to acquire their own funds. The regular cash income eamed enhances their status in their own eyes as well as within the family and society. It gives them a sense of security. This has an impact on gender relationships. It has been observed that women gradually gain self-confidence and self-respect.
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