SCOPE - Society for Consumer Protection and Environment

Promoting Good Governance and Development in Jammu & Kashmir

The Society for Consumer Protection and Environment [SCOPE] is an all-volunteer NGO based in Jammu & Kashmir, India. Current projects include:

	Women's Empowerment [Chhaya]
•	Poor Women's Empowerment through Tailoring

	Women's Self-Help Groups and Milk Producer's Co-op with NDDB
•	Promoting Development Schemes and the Economic Empowerment of the Poor

	Good Governance Project with PTF
•	Promoting Good Governance
•	Advocating for Gov't Reform
•	Pursuing Anti-Corruption

SCOPE is presently comprised of a core team of 18 advocates, academics, retired civil servants, retired officers, and other citizens of the Jammu & Kashmir State, India.

n December 2005, SCOPE began a Dairy Development Project in Akhnoor and Khour Blocks in collaboration with the National Dairy Development Board. The project has brought self-sustaining income generation to the Akhnoor and Khour Blocks, which have remained under-developed due to their distance from Jammu City. By pooling resources under this NDDB-sponsored cooperative, the local dairy producers have be able to chill and truck their products to the Jammu City market.

We have also commenced a weekly program with Womens' Self-Help Groups in collaboration with the Centre for Women Studies, University of Jammu in order to strengthen our SHGs. These SHGs would ultimately be integrated into Dairying for income generation. We hope that ultimately with economic empowerment, the status of the women in the area of operation would improve.

SCOPE will soon commence a project on Good Governance in collaboration with the Partnership for Transparency Fund, designed to combat corruption through Public Interest Litigation in the J&K High Court and promotion of the Right to Information.