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    The document outlines the Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) in India. STEP was launched in 1986 to extend training and skills upgrading to women to promote self-employment and sustainable wages in traditional sectors like agriculture, handicrafts, and village industries. The program aims to mobilize women into groups, improve their skills through training, provide assets and access to credit and markets, and create support services to empower women economically and help groups become self-sustaining. The objectives of STEP are to mobilize women into small groups, provide skill training, enable groups to start income generation activities or access wage work, and provide support services to improve women's employment and access to healthcare, literacy and legal resources.

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    The document outlines the Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) in India. STEP was launched in 1986 to extend training and skills upgrading to women to promote self-employment and sustainable wages in traditional sectors like agriculture, handicrafts, and village industries. The program aims to mobilize women into groups, improve their skills through training, provide assets and access to credit and markets, and create support services to empower women economically and help groups become self-sustaining. The objectives of STEP are to mobilize women into small groups, provide skill training, enable groups to start income generation activities or access wage work, and provide support services to improve women's employment and access to healthcare, literacy and legal resources.

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    The document outlines the Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) in India. STEP was launched in 1986 to extend training and skills upgrading to women to promote self-employment and sustainable wages in traditional sectors like agriculture, handicrafts, and village industries. The program aims to mobilize women into groups, improve their skills through training, provide assets and access to credit and markets, and create support services to empower women economically and help groups become self-sustaining. The objectives of STEP are to mobilize women into small groups, provide skill training, enable groups to start income generation activities or access wage work, and provide support services to improve women's employment and access to healthcare, literacy and legal resources.

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    The document outlines the Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) in India. STEP was launched in 1986 to extend training and skills upgrading to women to promote self-employment and sustainable wages in traditional sectors like agriculture, handicrafts, and village industries. The program aims to mobilize women into groups, improve their skills through training, provide assets and access to credit and markets, and create support services to empower women economically and help groups become self-sustaining. The objectives of STEP are to mobilize women into small groups, provide skill training, enable groups to start income generation activities or access wage work, and provide support services to improve women's employment and access to healthcare, literacy and legal resources.

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    GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

    Revised Guidelines and Application format

    On SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN (STEP) 2009


    1

    SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN (STEP)


    BACKGROUND As per the 1991 Census, there are 407.1 million women representing 47.1 percent of Countrys total population. Of those 91.40 million are in work force and 90 percent of them are in the informal sector with no legislative protection and with worst condition of working. The National Commission for Self Employed Women and Women in the Informal Sector (1988) which made a situational review of women in the informal Sector had suggested introduction of protective measures which would ensure guarantee of employment and income generation minimum wages, welfare and support services, training and upgradation of skills, etc. Towards this end, a programme for women (STEP) was launched in 1986 as one of the measures to ensure well being of women in the traditional informal sector. 2. The programme of STEP advocates the objective of extending training for upgradation of skills and sustainable employment for women through a variety of action oriented projects which employ women in large numbers. The Scheme covers 8 traditional sectors of employment, viz., Agriculture, Small Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Handlooms, Handicrafts, Khadi and village industries and sericulture. Two more sectors, namely Social forestry and waste land Development have been added later and now locally appropriate sectors as recommended by the State Governments have also been incorporated. 3. Based on the experience gained from the implementation of the scheme during the seventh plan period and in the subsequent years (1985-92) and also as per the advice given by the Ministry of Finance and the Planning Commission, it was decided to formulate the scheme for strengthening of the existing programme components and thus make the programme more effective in achieving the envisaged objectives. The scheme has also been evaluated by an independent agency and it has been suitably modified to achieve the envisaged objectives in a more effective and visible manner. THE CONCEPT 4. The Support to Training & Employment Programme for Women (STEP) was launched as a Central Sector Scheme in 1986-87. The programme of STEP aims to make a significant impact on women by upgrading skills for self and wage employment. The sequence of activities is envisaged as mobilizing women in viable groups, improving their skills, arranging for productive assets/ access to wage employment, creating backward and forward linkage, improving/arranging for support services, providing access to credit, awareness generation, gender sensitization, nutrition education, sensitization of project functionaries etc. Thus, STEP advocates an integrated package of inputs aiming at the self-reliance and empowerment of women by enhancing their productivity and enabling them to take up income generation activities. The ultimate endeavour of each project should be develop the group to thrive on a self- sustaining basis in the market place with the minimal Government support and intervention after the project period is over. 5. OBJECTIVES SCHEME OF THE

    Mobilising women in small viable groups and making facilities available through training, access to credit and other inputs. Provide training for skill up gradation Enabling groups of women to take up employment-cum-income generation programmes of their own, or to access wage employment. Provide support services for further improving and employment conditions of women and for access to health care, literacy, legal literacy, and other information.

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