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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: kerala-kudumbashree
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title: Kudumbashree Neighbourhood Group
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description: >-
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A Kerala (India) women's neighbourhood group (NHG) practice, the smallest
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unit of the Kudumbashree community network, where 10 to 20 women meet
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weekly to micro-save, assess needs, and make collective decisions.
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Kudumbashree is one of the largest women's community networks in the
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world, established by the Government of Kerala.
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source: Kudumbashree Mission, Government of Kerala
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source_url: https://www.kudumbashree.org/
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tags: [kerala, kudumbashree, women, microfinance, india, community]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Form the NHG
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description: >-
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Ten to twenty women from the same neighbourhood form a Neighbourhood
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Group, meeting weekly. Each contributes a small saving to a common
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fund.
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- headline: Weekly meeting
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description: >-
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The NHG meets weekly: savings are collected, needs are discussed,
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microloans are considered and approved by the group, not by an
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external officer.
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- headline: Assess and grade
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description: >-
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The NHG regularly assesses the needs of each member household and
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grades the family's risk, so that support is targeted to those most
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in need.
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- headline: Take up collective enterprises
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description: >-
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NHGs may form collective enterprises — catering, farming, crafts —
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with group members as co-owners, supported by the wider Kudumbashree
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network.
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- headline: Feed up to ADS and CDS
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description: >-
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NHG decisions and needs are fed up to the Area Development Society
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and Community Development Society, the federated structure that
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engages local government.
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outcome: >-
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Women in the same neighbourhood pool savings, decide on loans, assess
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each other's needs, and run enterprises, with a federated voice into
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local government.
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practice: >-
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The weekly meeting is the form. If meetings lapse, the NHG dies. The
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group, not an officer, decides on loans — this is what keeps it
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accountable to the women themselves. |