Over the Last Two Decades the grassroots savings movements have become formalized globally as ASCAS and ROSCAS.

• What is an ASCA?  ROSCA? Review Bussau and Mask ch 3 (Abigail East)
• Self Help Groups in India (Video)

These are not the only formulation

• Brazilian marketing self-help group (Kim Farnham)
• Liberty Trust: Mortgage Cooperative (ppt)

Operational Details

After understanding of various models of MFI, it is necessary to study in detail the cooperative movement and the SHG operational patterns.

Tim Weinhold on Shared Entrepeneurship

In India SHG has become a kind of national strategy to allievate poverty.

Womens' Self-Help Group in India

Group formation process and group dynamics in ILO (2006).Guidelines on the Formation of Self-Help Groups. Cambodia.

• Biblical primacy on savings not loans
• Opening of bank accounts
• Book keeping & maintenance of records
• SHG bank linkage (A Power point that shows how the Banking sector seeks to link to theSelf Help Groups).
• Federation of women Self-Help Groups at the local community (panchayat) level
• Quality parameters of Self-Help Groups assessment