Self Help Group Platform: Women's Social Empowerment
Channel: Self Help Group Platform
Date: 2018-03-08

Self Help Groups play a unique role in women's empowerment because they contribute to not just economic but also social outcomes. 

Here, women in Self Help Groups in Kongwa District, Tanzania discuss the SHG's impact on their lives.

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The Self Help Group app is a partnership between multiple stakeholders invested in leveraging digital technology to rapidly scale the program model of Self Help Groups (SHGs). 

The SHG app standardizes the facilitation process of starting and running an SHG. 

The curriculum is sequenced to support SHG facilitators from the early stages of group and community mobilization and includes group financial resources and on-demand training for facilitators. 

The app guides facilitators through the core SHG curriculum and covers fundamental processes essential to the healthy functioning of the group. 

We depend on feedback from partners and their SHG facilitators to continuously improve the quality of the SHG platform and our user experience. 

Currently, we are working with over a dozen implementing partners across sub-Saharan Africa, India, Latin America and the Caribbean whose inputs and priorities guide our development priorities.

We are currently able to translate the SHG platform into multiple languages with the assistance of implementing partners, and are currently launched in Amharic, Chichewa, English, French, Kinyarwanda, Luganda, Spanish, Swahili and Oriya.

After installation, the SHG app does not require connectivity to mobile data or wifi signal to function, but connectivity is required to send app data to the online dashboard. 

We invite partners who share our commitment to supporting SHGs and similar savings groups to download the Android “Self Help Group” app and see how this free and open-source resource can help their programs to scale with quality. 

Thanks to our partners at CCT, Tearfund Tanzania and our partners using the SHG platform around the world.

For more information, visit www.shgplatform.com

Download the SHG app: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9Tc-XYipIDlUnc3LVdYUnJSVXc

A project by Code Innovation (www.codeinnovation.com)

Video by Ashleigh Hamilton