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The Indo-Mali project has enabled us to successfuly replicate the Dholpur model of institution-building for livelihoods advdancement in Logo Kayes, Mali.
In 2016, cross-organizational stakeholders from Camide and Virtue Ventures visited Manjari Foundation in India to study our model of women’s empowerment and rural economic development. Impressed by the on-ground impact they witnessed, Camide invited Manjari Foundation to partner with them to execute Yeredme - a groundbreaking pilot for women's empowerment.
The objective was to see how Manjaris model for social transformation ccould be applied to solve challenges in the West African context.
During the visit, the Mali team experienced India’s powerful, peer-driven, Self-Help Group (SHG) ecosystem and witnessed how the Manjari team integrated the SHG functionality in its livelihood development agenda, thereby creating its own unique SHG model.
The Camide team shared its willingness to replicate the same model in the Kayes region of Mali. A team from Manjari Foundation, it was decided, would visit Mali to understand the context and explore the opportunity of partnership.
A year later, the Manjari team, comprising technical staff and SHG members, arrived in rural Mali.
Thus, 2017 marked the beginning of a true south-south collaboration, whereby the Indian women’s SHG model was being adapted to the Malian context and implemented through a powerful, experiential, peer-learning and peer role-modelling methodology.
To our knowledge, this is a unique initiative, and no similar programme had ever been executed in West Africa.
Cross-organizational stakeholders from Camide and Virtue Ventures visited Manjari Foundation in India to study instances of women’s empowerment and rural economic development organizations that had successfully scaled up their initiatives to reach a large population
A Manjari Foundation professional travelled to Kayes for a first baseline assessment, in order to prepare for a larger intervention.
The Manjari Foundation team (four SHG members, two senior book-keepers and a senior rural development professional) spent 30 days in four Malian villages with the Camide team and set up the first 50 groups.
The Manjari Foundation team (six Indian SHG members, three senior group book-keepers and a senior rural development professional) spent 15 days in the four Malian villages with the Camide team, to evaluate the existing groups and set up the first Village Organization (VO).
A group of Malian SHG members, the Camide technical staff and the mayor of Commune du Logo travelled to India for a second exposure visit that focused on livelihood activities. Five Malian SHG members decided to pilot a chicken farm.
Local replication started (by Malian SHG women) in nine more villages
Two senior Manjari Foundation rural development professionals traveled to Mali to conduct an evaluation of the pilot to date.
The Manjari Foundation team (4 Indian Federation members, 3 senior professionals and a senior rural development professional) traveled to Mali to establish the women’s Federation in Commune du Logo.
Expansion of the program in Senegal a one more west African country
Introducing new technology cum online software for managing accounting and finances of community institutions
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