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SwayamShikshan PrayogCenteringWomenLeadershipin SocialDevelopmentResilient women lead to resilient communities,which are the foundational backbone of a resilientsociety. Only a resilient society can make aresilient nation which will keep progressing and developingto its optimum potential.The only way to make women resilient enough is througheducation and learning. It could only be achieved whenwomen themselves believe in learning and acquiringknowledge. However, they need to be made aware of it,access to and all the opportunities available to them so theycan build their resilience, problem-solving abilities, andleadership skills.What is necessary in this regard is forging socialrelationships and creating a self-empowering ecosystem oflearning and education. Just like one created by SwayamShikshan Prayog (SSP), the name of which itself standsfor Experimenting Self-Education for Empowerment.SSP was founded by the great visionary Ms PremaGopalan with a dream of centering women’s leadership incommunity development. She completed her Master’sDegree in Social Work from the prestigious TATA Instituteof Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her search for economicalternatives for women belonging to poor communities ledher to pioneer work with savings and credit for grassrootswomen in rural Maharashtra.“Envisioned by the beloved Ms Gopalan, our approach atSSP is bringing vulnerable and marginalised women to thecentre of leadership in addressing disasters and climaticrisks across India. Although, Ms Gopalan is no more inphysical form with us, her blessings, love, compassion, andenduring spirit will live forever in our hearts.” Says MrUpmanyu Patil, Director - Programs at Swayam ShikshanPrayog.Upmanyu has had expertise in disaster management andresilient development for the last two decades. He is ahighly committed and innovative socio-technicaldevelopment professional with an engineering andmanagement background.His work has been committed to designing, developing, andstrengthening large-scale interventions that involvecommunity institutions and PRIs in water andenvironmental sanitation energy and rural developmentacross climate-threatened communities.Fostering A Women Entrepreneurial LeadershipNetworkGrassroots women as innovators and changemakers aredemonstrating community resilience strategies throughclimate resilient farming, sustainable livelihoods, andentrepreneurship development.SSP widely advocates for changing public policy in favourof recognizing grassroots women’s collectives in their newroles as community resource persons/community levelfacilitators, and leaders and shares these learnings widelywith peer networks and institutions globally.To connect the growing network of women entrepreneurs tothe mainstream institutions, SSP in its role as an ecosystembuilder, promoted:• A federated network of women’s collectives;• Women-led Agricultural Value Chain• Six women-led Farmer Producer Organization (FPOs)Together, these enterprise entities provide access toenterprise finance, business support and links to global anddomestic market players that women need to succeed inremote and opaque markets.Women-led Agricultural Value ChainSix women-led Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)are created with over 4,672 shareholders, who are takinglead in the agriculture and value chain sector.32 | August 2022 | www.insightssuccess.in
Envisioned by the beloved Ms Gopalan, our approach at SSPis bringing vulnerable and marginalised women to the centre ofleadership in addressing disasters and clima c risks across India.33 | August 2022 | www.insightssuccess.in
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