Self-Help Groups

Selected resources on self-help groups.

Regulation

• Srinivasan, R. Self-Help Groups as Financial Institutions: Policy Implications Using a Financial Model, 2003

SHGs & Banks:

• Beinpuo, F., Group Intermediation in Ghana. The Credit with Education Programme, 2004
• Harper, M., Grameen Bank Groups and Self-Help Groups: What are the Differences?, 2002
• Harper, M., Promotion of Self Help Groups Under the SHG Bank Linkage Programme in India, 2002
• Karduck, S. & Seibel, H., Transaction Costs of Self-Help Groups - A Study of NABARD's SHG Banking Programme in India, 2004
• MPAssociates Pvt. Ltd., Kalajhinin Mahila SHG, 2005
• Nair, A., Sustainability of Microfinance Self Help Groups in India: Would Federating Help?, 2003
• Seibel, H., SHG Banking in India: The Developing World's Largest and Fastest-Growing Microfinance Program - Recent Developments, 2005
• Seibel, H. & Dave, H., Bank Transaction Costs in India's Self-Help Group Banking Program, 2002
• Siebel, H.D. & Dave, H. R., Commercial Aspects of Self-Help Group Banking in India: A Study of Bank Transaction Costs, 2002
• Seibel, H.D., SHG Banking: A Financial Technology for Reaching Marginal Areas and the Very Poor, 2001
• Seibel, H. & Khadka, S., SHG Banking: A Financial Technology for Very Poor Microentrerpreneurs, 2000
• Valaboju, A., Banking With The Poor : Self Help Group Approach in India, 2004
• Wilson, K., The New Microfinance: An Essay on the Self-Help Group Movement in India, 2002

SHGs & Poverty, Health and Education issues

• Beinpuo, F., Group Intermediation in Ghana. The Credit with Education Programme, 2004
• Seibel, H. & Khadka, S., SHG Banking: A Financial Technology for Very Poor Microentrerpreneurs, 2000
• Meyer, R.L., Microfinance, Poverty Alleviation, and Improving Food Security: Implications for India, 2001
• MPAssociates Pvt. Ltd., Purana Sahi Mahila Self Help Group, 2005
• MPAssociates Pvt. Ltd., SHG Revolution - A Paradigm Shift : A Case Study of Jay Hanuman Krushak Kalyan Sangh, 2005
• Pickens, M., Savings-led and Self-help Microfinance in Cambodia: Lessons Learned and Best Practices, 2004
• Puhazhendi, V. & Badatya, K. C., SHG-Bank Linkage Programme for Rural Poor - an Impact Assessment, 2002

SHGs & ROSCAS

• Steel, W., Adapting ROSCA Methodology for Savings and Credit Self-Help: The KEPP, 2004

SHGs & Women

• UNDP., Changes in the Position and Status of Women's Group Within the Community, 2004
• UNDP., Design and Management of Microcredit Programme, 2004
• UNDP., Empowerment: Changes in the Lives of Individual Women, 2004