Multiple Individual Initiatives through NGO Support in the Growth and Development Process of Livelihood with Sustainable Features

Abstract

The livelihood generation is the key objective of any Self Help Group (SHGs) to empower the women and the marginalized who got involved. However it would be rare that every individual in a single SHG getting involved in individual livelihood initiatives. An SHG in Nellyady Gram Panchayat, in DK district, Karnataka has such a rare success story by initiating social enterprises by starting xerox shop, hotel, tailoring shop, studio and dairy farming by the members of a single SHG. Over the past three years all of them are running well. It has helped in the poverty alleviation of the concerned entrepreneurs as well as those ancillary employed. There was community and agency support in the whole process. The community participation was available through resource mobilization and socio-economic support. The micro finance scheme of the agency that supports the SHG contributed adequate finance in the initial stage. The social worker's involvement in the entire project was evident and is rectified in this case study. The driving forces and success attributes must be further studied to make it a sustainable model of livelihood development with community initiative.