“Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother” –Susan B. Anthony.

CISA encourages both women and men self help groups but the major focus is on women self help groups to help make a marked improvement in the status of women.  It may be easier to say that women of today are different from their grandmothers but to what extent is the woman’s voice heard in the rural areas where still drastic changes are needed to help women to come to terms with reality and bring them out of oppression they face by way of gender disparity, education, decision making in the family, etc.  CISA is engaged in formation of self help groups thus promoting economic empowerment among the poor and the women through savings and credit as a major economic factor in enriching the poor, to achieve the much required economic empowerment through micro enterprise. Formation of SHGs has become an easy instrumental mechanism for the poor to help themselves in self-management process.  The main objective being to improve their soico-economic status and living conditions.  So far 85 self-help groups have been promoted and nurtured.

CISA has been conducting many programmes to develop women as powerful human resource in order promote self reliance and self-sufficiency among the poor and the marginalized  women in the remote rural, semi urban and slums in and around Byadgi taluk. These programmes provide deeper insight and create awareness in rural women about their own skills, their rights & responsibilities.

CISA has organized training on Panchayat Raj, importance of self help groups, leadership, communication skills, fundamental rights, legal aid, strengthening of Maha sanghas, etc. at many places for women and weaker sections of the society.