Introduction

 Group approach of transfer of technology adopted by Agricultural Science Foundation (ASF) has started giving dividends in the form of improved socio-economic conditions of the targeted participants.  Organisation of the women in to Self Help Groups, building their capacity for sustenance and making suitable technical interventions for livelihood improvement has been the priority area of ASF programmes.  One of the such group is Ganesh Landless Women Self Help Group of Hulkoti village wherein number of interventions are made by ASF to enhance the livelihood options of the poor families.  Participatory impact assessment of interventions of ASF for Ganesh SHG was carried out to assess the outcome and impact.

The details of the impact assessed is given below 

Profile of Ganesh SHG
Sl.No	Name of the SHG	Ganesh  SHG
(i)	Total number of members	10
(ii)	Income category	Below Poverty Line (BPL)
(iii)	Date of  initiation of SHG	04-02-1999
(iv)	Total savings	Rs.60,000.00
(v)	Interest earned	Rs. 20,000.00
(vi)	Loan taken from mobile bank	Rs. 105,000.00
(vii)	Main occupation of the group	Agricultural labourers

Interventions of Resources for Ganesh SHG

• Awareness meeting on concept of Self Help Group conducted
• Three meetings conducted before organizing them into SHG
• Capacity building training of 2 days duration on SHG concept for all the ten members.
• Facilitation of writing accounts of SHGs for 1 year
• Livelihood Planning for the group
• Following training programs were organized for the members of SHG

Sl.No	Name of training	Duration (Days)	Members participated
i	Goat rearing	2	10
ii	Buffaloe rearing	3	10
iii	Kitchen garden	1	10
iv	Awareness programme on backyard poultry	1	6
v	Entrepreneurship development programme	1	10

 

• Exposure visits: Exposure visit to Thursday bazaar at Dharwad and Yadwad village (adopted village of UAS, Dharwad) to study the marketing of SHG products and food processing activities.
• Inputs Provided to the SHG
• Vegetable seeds like tomato, brinjal, chilli, bitroot and seedlings of papaya, citrus, curry leaf were given to SHGs to establish kitchen garden.
• SHG Visit by ASF Scientists
• ASF scientists visited 8-10 times for one year
• Detailed training programme with hands on experience on goat rearing, buffaloe rearing and kitchen garden was organized to SHG members

Time Line of Activities of Ganesh SHG
1999	Organised in to SHG Capacity building on SHG concept
2000	First loan linkage for consumption purpose
2001	Cheque book system introduced Training on Goat rearing conducted to all 10 members Training on Kitchen Garden organized for 10 members Group activity on grocery initiated
2002	Training on buffaloe rearing conducted for 10 members and enterprise initiated with bank loan
2003	Awareness training on poultry (backyard) organized for 10 members
2004	SHG linked to NATP programme for food processing Awareness on food processing activity (vermicelli enterprise) organized for 10 members
2005	Exposure visit to villages adopted under NATP programme to study food processing activities Vermicelli unit started (Group activity)
2006	Participation in Wednesday Bazar for sales of their products every Wednesday Participation in “SARAS” at Bangalore for 10 days