Nagaland

The main objective of VTfW is to provide quality training in traditional and non- traditional trades to women and equip them with marketable skills enabling them to compete more efficiently in the job market

Funding Agency/Ministry: Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (NSSWB)

Implementing/Nodal Agency: Nagaland State Social Welfare Board

Targeted Beneficiaries: Unemployed women 

Eligibility for availing the Scheme: Registered NGO/organization working for women 

Processing time for beneficiaries : 5 months to 8 months

Forms of Benefit : Training courses like Housekeeping, catering (Hospitality sector) Beauty care, Nursing assistance care for elderly person (Geriatric care) Area 

Applicability : Kohima 

When to apply : As and when advertisements are out in the local dailies

A scheme to prevent trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation through social mobilization and involvement of local communities, awareness generation programmes, generate public discourse through workshops/ seminars and such events and any other innovative activity.

Falling under the Ministry of Women and Child Development, STEP scheme is being conducted with the objective of providing training of self-employment to women on traditional enterprises like agriculture, animal husbandry, dairy, matting, horticulture etc. Women are trained with the cooperation of Non-Government Organisations. The beneficiaries for this Scheme are women of 16 years and above.

Launched on 1st June 2011, is an initiative to assure free services to all pregnant women & sick neonates (up to 1 year after birth) accessing public health institutions and was implemented in Nagaland from 1st of September, 2012. The scheme envisages free drugs & consumables (IFA, calcium supplementation, de worming etc), free provision of blood, free diet during stay in the health institutions (up to 3 days for normal delivery & 7 days for caesarean section) and free transport from house to the government health facility, between facilities, in case she is referred to higher facility on account of complications and also drop back home after 48 hours of delivery

The Department of Science and Technology has a very successful production unit for sanitary napkins. The products are of high quality, cost effective, hygienic and environment friendly. High quality raw materials are being used in the making, though the price is always the lowest. The reason behind this project is to create awareness among the women and the girl groups on the use of safe sanitary napkins and panty liners for personal hygiene. Women and girls living in the rural areas generally do not maintain cleanliness during the menstrual period, and as a result they automatically become the host of many infectious diseases. And it is hoped that the successful implementation of the programme will definitely control the spread of vulnerable diseases, and maintain a clean environment. 

NOTE: The project is totally funded by the Govt. of Nagaland. The finished products are available during the office hours at Science & Technology Complex, Kohima, Nagaland.

During 2017-18, the Department has opened a new training-cum-production centre at Purana Bazaar, Dimapur. Training programmes on tailoring and knitting are being provided to school dropout girls. During the first year of implementation, the seating capacity is limited to 25 only. However, in the coming years, the seating capacity is expected to go as high as 75 per year with the introduction of other skill development programmes.

Agency/Ministry : Directorate of Women Resource Development Implementing/Nodal Agency : Directorate of Women Resource Development 

Targeted Beneficiaries : School drop-out girls Eligibility for availing the Scheme : Any school dropout girls 

Seating Capacity : Limited to 25 Seats Area

The Department of Women Resource Development has entered into a partnership programme with three enterprises, namely Preciousmelove, Quirky Crafts and Rolong’s Creation to provide training on various activities such as doll making, paper crafts, etc implemented at Integrated Development-CumResource Centre at Purana Bazaar, Dimapur. 

The targeted beneficiaries of this scheme are young women entrepreneurs.

NRLM aims to reduce poverty through building strong self managed and self-governed grass root institutions of poor Self Help Groups (SHGs) and their village level organizations by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities resulting in significant improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis. These community institutions ensure space, voice and resources for the poor and for reducing their dependence on external agencies and also focus on training and capacity building of the poor to ensure that they are provided with the requisite skills for managing their institutions, livelihood for enhancing their credit absorption capacity and credit worthiness. Also a multi-pronged approach for training and continuous capacity building of the government functionaries, banker and other key stakeholders is provided. Particular focus is given to develop and engage community professionals, community resource persons for capacity building of SHGs and their federations and other collectives.

 The primary objective of Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojna (MKSP) is to empower women in agriculture by making systematic investments to enhance their participation and productivity, and also create and sustain agriculture based livelihood of rural women. By establishing local resource based agriculture, wherein women in agriculture contribute substantially over the production resources and manage the support systems, the project seeks to enable them to gain better access to the inputs and services provided by the government and other agencies.

For more information on schemes made available by the State government of Nagaland, please visit: https://srcw.nagaland.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Data-Bank.pdf

Swadhar Grehs in the State – HERE

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