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| Women's Dairy Cooperative Leadership Programme
( WDCLP) |
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The Women's Dairy Cooperative Leadership Programme (WDCLP)
was launched in 1995 as a pilot programme with the objective
of strengthening the dairy cooperative movement by significantly
increasing women's participation as active members and
as leaders in the governance of cooperative societies,
unions and federations.
NDDB provides assistance
to milk producers' cooperative unions in conducting
several activities to achieve WDCLP objectives. Some
key activities include:
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- Health and sanitation: Health
and sanitation camps, campaigns and education programmes
for women focusing on maternal and child health and
disease prevention
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Improved
Animal Husbandry practices: Demonstrations,
field visits and other programmes to inform women
of appropriate feeding, breeding, calf rearing and
milch animal management practices
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Socio-economic Activities
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- Organisation of Mahila Mandals
(women's clubs)
- Women's literacy programmes
- Organisation of thrift and credit
groups
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- Training programmes and exposure
visits for potential leaders
- Training of village resource persons
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- Education programmes on DCS activities,
member responsibilities and rights, managing committee
member duties and tasks.
- Training for women DCS Management
Committee Member
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The WDCLP encourages cooperative milk producers' unions
to identify women staff to participate in training designed to develop
their latent potential. In the village, a key strategy is training
and positioning a local woman as a resource person to encourage and support
women's involvement in their dairy cooperative.
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