Role of a Woman Leader in Cooperative Dairy Movement: Story of NDDB Woman Empowering Women Dr.

. Vrajlal Sapovadia (Reader) Dr. Sarla Achuthan (Director) B.K. School of Business Management Gujarat University Ahmedabad, India

Women in India
Census  Number of female vis--vis male vis Social status  Economical status  Strengths  Weakness


Activity Percent share by woman

Ploughing 30%  Planting 50%  Livestock 50%  Harvesting 60%  Weeding 70%  Processing and storing crops 85%  Domestic work 95%


NDDB


National Dairy Development Board  Evolution of idea  Replicating AMUL pattern  India a Agro & Rural economy  Male dominance  Dairy, Cattle & women strong relation  Constitutional & Social obligations  Directive principle

NDDB Catalyst of cooperative movement

Cooperative & ICA principles  Democratic institute  Meaning of democracy widened  NDDB strategy enhancing women participation  NDDB Women empowerment programme


Institutional Building
Systematic & value based  Strengthening capacities of primary members of Dairy Cooperative Society (DCS)  Management Committee Members  Staff members  Focus on viable, salient & truly member owned as well as member controlled  Improving physical & financial performance


Women empowerment programme

Why is gender integration in cooperatives important and what are the benefits of promoting women's participation in cooperatives?  What can be done to integrate women in cooperative development and to enhance their participation in decisionmaking processes?


Cooperative Development Programme

Designed to strengthen role of members in the control & governance  Creating awareness rights & responsibilities  Women education village dairy cooperatives in 87 milk unions  Breeding, feeding, husbandry & better health care of animals  Increased membership from 800,000 to 1400,000


Objectives of CDP


Increase membership of women in DCS  Increase awareness about modern dairying techniques  Train women in managing accounts of milk sales  Encourage women to collect milk payments  Involve women in governance of DCS  Encourage formation of local womens group

Womens dairy Project (WDP)

Encourage active participation of women  Bring economic & social equality  Enable poor women to be active  Provide income generating activities  Generate leadership among poor women  Encourage women to take responsibility  Enable women to participate in other village level organisation  Train women in calf rearing, fodder, women & child health etc


Activities under WDP

Provide subsidised cattle feed, artificial insemination services, first aid  Provide loans for purchase cattle  Provide adult literacy training and pre school for girls  Creating awareness of personal hygiene  Support the initiation of income generating activities supplying sewing machine, detergent making equipment etc.


Womens dairy leadership programme (WDCLP)



Training & positioning local women as change agent  Lady Resource Persons (LRPs)  LRPs responsible to organise awareness programme  Cattle health  Women health  Child care

WDCLP


Literacy programme  Leadership training  Self Help Groups (SHGs)  12 states  65 milk unions  10971 SHGs  168290 members  Savings of INR 240.88 million

Women Thrift Cooperatives

Women Self Help Group a great success  Promoting viable thrift & credit cooperatives for women  Madhya Pardesh & Andhra Pradesh  133 WTCs  9097 members  Savings INR 10.41 million  NDDB perspective 2010  25% women members


Success stories
Mukanoor Womens Cooperative Dairy  All women dairy union  16000 women members  100 women dairy cooperatives  22000 liter/day milk procured  Members are members of WTC


Ichhamati Milk Union etc.

601 SHGs  Milk & marketing outlets with Mother Dairy Brand  Various milk products  Sarabjit Kaur of Rapar Milk Union 10 milch animals, earning INR 1200 per day  WDCs drives out social evils Gopalpur awakening people against evil of liquor


Women Participation & Enhancing Measures



Mansinh Institute of Training, Mehsana, Gujarat state  Customised programme in material management, utility management & electric equipment  Regional Demonstration & Training Centre, Jalandhar, Punjab  Capacity building programme for women

Enhancing Women Involvement in Dairy Cooperatives



EWIC  Male sensitise programme  Forming women SHGs  Womens education  Exposure to successful dairy cooperatives  6184 DSC belonging to 61 milk unions participated in EWIC

Growth in women cooperatives



0.62 million women members in 1986-87 1986 2.47 million women members in 2001-02 2001 Committee members  Encourage to have at least three women committee members  Training programme for women committee members  ORG research & its inference

Benefits
Women  Dairy  Society  Economical  Social  Institutional  Cooperative values & cooperatives