Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development

Capacity building is an action plan to give training to improve skills of the members of self help groups to upgrade them. The present study was conducted in Majha, Malwa and Doaba zones of Punjab to determine the change in behaviour of the members of self help groups after the trainings organised for them by various institutions. Twelve self help groups were selected from three cultural zones of Punjab. A total of 200 members enrolling in these groups were selected based on probability proportion to size (PPS) of the self help group in each district. The data were collected with the help of interview schedule. Majority of the respondents enrolled in a group for employment opportunities (97.5%), economic benefits (96%) and to develop habit of savings (91%). Most of respondents availed training opportunities provided to them by different agencies regarding product preparation for their capacity building that resulted in behavioural changes in terms of knowledge, attitude and skill. Change in behavior of the members facilitates the effective functioning of the self help groups.