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Among the IP communities that are mostly located in Geographically and Isolated Areas (GIDAs), government services is either insufficient or absent and due to the lower level of education its residents had attained and the lack of quality and competent leaders, the organizing of cooperatives and association to help facilitate the delivery of services to its residents had always failed. Recognizing the natural perseverance of IP women, TLDFI started organizing mostly IP women into Self Help Groups (SHG) and Cluster Level Association (CLA) under its SHA Promotion Strategy, where the individual members as well as their SHG and CLA were taught how to developed individual and group goals intended to address their personal and community needs using their own available resources and if needed to demand services and support from duty bearers both government and volunteer organizations.Being a SHG member, all women members were provided equal opportunity to developed their leadership skills and increase their self-esteem. Through their SHG and CLA, the IP women were able to make a difference in their community and in helping improved the economic condition of their family – read the stories of Grow CLA, Kesbong Nawa SHG, Food First SHG, Tugin SHG on how the IP women became instrumental in developing their communities. It also became an instrument for the IP women to developed their self-esteem and overcome their fears just like what Janet Ali and Lot Guisan had achieved. |
