Training

Education has played an important role in human development and training helps to speed up the development process. Training also helps in providing knowledge, skills and changes the attitude of human beings. Thus, knowing the importance of training, MAVIM had given importance to various trainings. MAVIM works in all over the Maharashtra through Self Help Groups (SHGs) MAVIM has professionally qualified personnel trained in Social Sciences in its Head office and in district offices.  MAVIM trained these officers on different subject related to the women empowerment. These officers gives training to Sahayoginies and further Sahayoginies give training to SHG women.

Capacity Building Training:  These trainings provide information, knowledge to women which help them to understand their own situation and how to face the situation.  This training also helps to change their attitude.  MAVIM organize these trainings on different level in different stages of the life cycles of self help groups.

i)                    SHG Concept Training: at the beginning of group formation MAVIM Sahayoginies conduct SHG concept training for all the SHG members.  These trainings help women to understand importance of SHG, function of SHG, their role in SHG.

ii)                   Accounts Training: Saving is one of the important activities of the Self Help Groups which bring women together initially.  The proper record of savings and internal lending help to develop trust among each other.  Account training helps women to know how to keep account records properly.

iii)                 Leadership training: Leaders plays an important role in group development.  Each group has three leaders, their responsibility to lead the group. Leaders need to understand group dynamic, development stages and role of leader.  Leadership training provides all the inputs required to a good leader.

iv)                 Gender Sensitization Training:  In the process of women empowerment, gender sensitization training plays an important role by making women aware about their own status and importance. 

v)                  Functional Literacy : This training help women to understand the  functions of different institutions and organisations which  play important role in their day to day life such as Grampanchayat, Zilla parishad, bank, post office, police patil etc.  

vi)                 Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP):  To encourage women to take up entrepreneurship activities to increase their income, EAP training helps women to understand concepts, stages how to identify and how to become entrepreneurs. 

vii)               Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRI):  This training gives information to SHG women in functioning of Panchayat Raj and the role of women in panchayat raj which leads to the increased participation of women in panchayatraj.

viii)              Monitoring and Evaluation: Self Help Groups develop through various stages. Each stage is very important for development of SHG.  These trainings make SHG women understand how to monitor and evaluate their own groups at different stages.      

Apart from these stipulated trainings, MAVIM organizes different need base training for the SHG members such as health training etc.