IGNOU - Certificate in Empowering Women through Self Help Groups (CWDL)

About the course

Indian women are often segregated. They are deprived of education, employment and awareness of their rights. This denies women access to a holistic understanding of their needs and expectations from the mainstream life necessities. "Empowering Women through Self-Help Group's" is a Certificate Programme designed to provide systematic communication for women, with the aid of hardware support to deliver information relevant to women's social context. The programme aims at enhancing women's confidence, improving their interpersonal relations/leadership qualities/general management abilities and also helping them to acquire access to credit and resources. Learners who clear the certificate programme from IGNOU will be equipped as a resource person to train other change agents similarly situated in their regions/work sphere and establish their own micro-enterprise. The process will help promote formation and sustainability of SHGs as well.

Objectives

• Strengthen ongoing efforts to train facilitators/master trainers of SHGs

• Evolve an effective/sustainable in country training network/resource pool of trainers

• Empower the change agents to function more effectively as trainers and community organizers in helping set up SHGs and to address gender issues

• Provide guidelines for the establishment of micro-enterprises

• Provide basic legal literacy

Content of Course

The content of the programme has been designed keeping in mind women's inequality at various levels. It is intended to enhance women's ability to determine and exercise life options, influence decision-making and claim control and management over crucial material and non-material resources. Such access to learning will help women counter their unequal context and improve the quality of their lives on several fronts.

• CWDL Understand and Interpret your Laws

• What is a boy? What is a girl?

• A learner's journal (CWDL-Assignments)

Target Group

Target groups of the Certificate Programme comprise the supervisory level practitioners, trainers and implementers of Self Help Groups of Swaran Jayanti Gram Sva Rozgar Yojna (SJGSRY), Mahila Swasthya Sangh (MSS), Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK) etc, Non-government Organisations (NGOs), and anyone else who is interested in either pursuing this course of study or work in an NGO in future or set up his / her own NGO.

Program Code

CWDL

Eligibility

Ability to read and write the language opted for study

Min age as on 1^st Jan. of the Academic Year

18 years

Duration (Min)

6 months

Duration (Max)

2 years

Program Fee

Rs. 1,400/-

Fee details presented here are indicative and are subject to change. Students are advised to check with the admission notification or with the authorities concerned for the latest information.

Medium of Instruction

English / Hindi / Tamil / Marathi / Gujarati / Braille

Admission details

Admission notification is generally released in May/June and the last date for submission of filled-in application forms will be September 30 for January session and March 31 for July session. However students are requested to check with the official admission notification for the exact dates related to admissions.

For further information on this course, please email to cwdl@ignou.ac.in

For information on Student Registration & Evaluation, please email to sred@ignou.ac.in

For information on Material Production and Distribution, please email mpdd@ignou.ac.in

For other information, please email to ssc@ignou.ac.in