The objectives of the study required for the Financial assessment on transparency, fairness and financial norms of savings and inter-lending within the SHGs along with the role of leadership in the SHGs, The aspects under study included Financial and institutional capacities and the financial impacts on the implementation and adoption of livelihood activities at the SHG level.
The study thus focused on issues such as Financial Discipline, Financial Management, the regularity of a members’ attendance, the extent to which members knew about the developments in their own SHGs due to the financial support provided by the VO/CLF/Banks, also the financial aspects such as regularity and quality of maintenance of financial records at SHG level were studied.