The Toolkit helps in formation of new Women’s Self Help Groups (SHG), and strengthing of the existing ones and thus organising poor around their own resources.

Reaches out to women systematically by organizing them, enhancing their capabilities, introducing ways to improve their incomes and linking them to banks, markets and other economic services, prepares members for further livelihoods interventions and mobilise finance from banks for livelihoods.

Savings and credit is in itself smoothens consumption, reduces vulnerabilities and also finances existing livelihoods.