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| Building Social Capital |
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The generation of
social capital is one of the key aspects of
community institution building. The notion of
social capital, as perceived by RGMVP, is that
each woman member of the CIPs becomes a
repository of best practices and knowledge,
which she then transfers to other members of the
community. This approach of using enlightened
community members, rather than external
facilitators, in the social mobilisation process
on a large scale is unique to RGMVP, based on
the Programme’s experience that it is women from
within the community that can have maximum
impact while convincing non-Programme community
members.
The most important step in this direction has
been the identification of Community Resource
Persons (CRPs) to scale up Programme
interventions. CRPs are those SHG women who have
perceived the opportunities of change by having
organised themselves. These CRPs then take the
vision of the Programme to the leftover poor who
have not been organised. In fact, every CRP has
her own success story that acts as inspiration
for non-members and motivates them to build
their own institutions. The CRP strategy is
extremely effective for social mobilisation, as
a CRP’s experience-sharing has a huge – often
life-changing -- impact on women since she is
speaking from personal experience.
Apart from this, social capital has also been
built in specific, critical areas of Programme
intervention at the three levels of institutions
such as participatory identification of poor,
health, dairy, agriculture, monitoring of SHGs,
etc. It speaks volumes for the success of this
strategy that the CIP members have been quick to
internalise knowledge imparted to them during
training and disseminate it to the community and
that the CIPs have thrown up a large number of
exceptional community leaders and trainers.
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Social Capital Generated by RGMVP |
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Community Volunteers |
191 |
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Animators |
734 |
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Community Resource Persons (Social
Mobilisation) |
500 |
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SHG Leaders |
48,410 |
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Village Organisation- Community Leaders |
3745 |
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VOs Health Committee Members |
1100 |
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VOs Committee Members for Participatory
Identification of Poor |
1100 |
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VOs Bank Linkage Committee Members |
2000 |
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VOs Social Audit Committee Members |
2000 |
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Block Organisation –Community Leaders |
75 |
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Block Organisation-Various Committee
Members |
225 |
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Samooh Sakhi (SHG Activist) |
3600 |
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Swasthya Sakhi (Community Health
Activists) |
1000 |
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Community Resource Persons (Dairy) |
222 |
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Community Resource Persons (Agriculture) |
194 |
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