Self-help promotion
Self-help promotion refers to the promotion of the traditional as well as modern ways of people organising themselves to help each other on the basis of reciprocity. Promoting self-help is common particularly in situations in which the government services do not reach the people or the services provided do not meet the required standard. The promotion of self-help does not replace the government as the main service deliver but assists the society to get services while the structures of the government are being strengthened. In many societies organisation in groups is the traditional way of working together.
My expertise in self-help promotion
My expertise particularly involves working together with women's self-help-groups towards savings and small credits as well as their institutional development into cooperatives. I have worked as a consultant for men and children's self-help-groups as well as for disabled people. Both with the women's and disabled people's self-help-groups I have experience in the development of income-generating activities and in the capacity-building of the organisations. All women's and men's self-help-groups, with which I have worked also base their cooperation on the principles reciprocity.
My references in self-help promotion
Terra Consulting Ltd. (Thua Thien Hue Rural Development Programme), Hue, Vietnam
Self-help-groups for disabled people, monitoring and evaluation of the groups in Vietnam
AWO International, Berlin, Germany
Women, men and children's self-help-groups, micro-finance, cooperatives in India and Nepal
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Student Union of University of Helsinki, (Evaluation of the Grassroot Level Activity Centre Project for Adolescent Girls in District Chamoli), India
Women and adolescent girls' self-help-groups with income-generating activities and social aspects of self-help-group participation, emphasis on the empowerment of the women
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