WOMEN AND LIVELIHOOD

Options for combining house work, work as agricultural labour and options to provide additional income for rural women are very limited.  TIDE has tried to create income generating options for women with innovative technologies and dissemination strategies. Appreciating the reality that women's groups  need time and confidence to approach financial institutions for loans service and trade oriented livelihood options that require limited financial resources have also been developed. 

Some successful livelihood options demonstrated are fish drying, cashew processing, household stove construction, vermi composting from coconut waste, production of dried fruits and vegetables

Projects 

1. Rural Livelihoods Capacity Building Among Community Based organizations : Household level Cashew Processing by women's neighbourhood help groups.

2. Extension of Technical Training in household stove construction and pilot training in charcoal making from waste biomass

3. Technical Training of Women for Income Generation through appropriate technical intervention

4. Establishment of production facility and building women entrepreneurship for low cost preservation and processing of fruits and vegetables

5. Women entrepreneurship in small scale dehydration of fruits and vegetables 

6. Promoting fish drying using efficient biomass fired driers

Women Entrepreneurs 

Read the case study of Lalitha Bai  a successful entrepreneur who has made construction of smokeless household stoves as her profession