Rotating Savings and Credit Associations: An Important Space for Social Work Practice
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The Self Help Group movement has received great attention from practitioners,policy makers and academicians. However, similar self-generated informal creditinstitutions that have the potential to empower women and alleviate poverty havebeen overlooked. Rotating savings and credit associations is one such institutionalmodel that is widely used across countries but not acknowledged. This article ex-amines the organisational potential of marup, a savings and credit institution, initi-ated by the Meiteis in Manipur. Data collected through in-depth interviews and oralhistories provided the information on the evolution of the marup. The article exam-ines the process of women empowerment using the operationalised definition ofempowerment and identifies marup as an important space for social work practice.The relevance of social group work is explained by looking at each stage of groupdevelopment.
Author: Melody Kshetrimayum
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2934462641