Women Empowerment

UPSRLM and DA have played a strong role in developing SHG linked village, block and cluster level federation of women in rural setup. Now CREATE is playing a crucial role towards capacity building of women and developing their entrepreneurial skills and mindsets. Eventually this will foster their leadership skills, voice and choice, power of independent thinking, entrepreneurial skills and empower them overall and also financially.

CREATE has already developed three training modules for the cluster leaders and has developed a team to facilitate their capacity building in their entrepreneurship journey. These training modules cover self-transformation, skilling and collaboration as entrepreneurs.

CREATE’s role will be pivotal in facilitating the Three-Dimensional Empowerment Theory:

Micro-Level Empowerment	Works on an individual’s personal beliefs and actions. This is where personal or psychological empowerment can be observed. It involves self-efficacy beliefs about control on self and others, and self-confidence.
Meso-level Empowerment	Refers to beliefs as well as actions in relation to relevant others. This is where relational empowerment can be observed. For example, vis a-vis women’s access to markets, freedom of mobility, risk of violence, their power within the household and control over household finances.
Macro-level Empowerment	Refers to outcomes in the broader, societal context where societal empowerment can be observed. For example, where percentage of women in entrepreneurship or female leadership in microfinance, attrition rate of women from entrepreneurial activities, financial literacy etc. are concerned.