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Kudumbashree: A Comprehensive Social Innovation for Women Empowerment

Kudumbashree: A Comprehensive Social Innovation for Women Empowerment

Chacko Jose P.
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781799828198|ISBN10: 1799828190|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799828204|EISBN13: 9781799828211
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch024
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Chacko Jose P. "Kudumbashree: A Comprehensive Social Innovation for Women Empowerment." Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment, edited by Moly Kuruvilla and Irene George, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 437-456. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch024

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Chacko Jose P. (2020). Kudumbashree: A Comprehensive Social Innovation for Women Empowerment. In M. Kuruvilla & I. George (Eds.), Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment (pp. 437-456). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch024

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Chacko Jose P. "Kudumbashree: A Comprehensive Social Innovation for Women Empowerment." In Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment, edited by Moly Kuruvilla and Irene George, 437-456. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch024

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Abstract

Kudumbashree, established in Kerala, India in the year of 1998 was perceived not merely as one SHG-based women empowerment programme in the narrow sense, but as a poverty eradication mission of Kerala. Kudumbashree is a multifaceted programme focusing primarily on microfinance and micro-enterprise development, but at the same time integrally linked to local self-government institutions. Kudumbashree enhances the civic participation in the development process in a grass root level, particularly, deepen democracy, strengthen social capital, facilitate efficiency sustained growth and gender mainstreaming. Kudumbashree has succeeded to empower women by boosting women's sense of self-worth; right to have and to determine choices; right to have access to opportunities and resources; right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home; and ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just, social and economic order.

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