Some non-banking initiatives are also being experimented in various parts of the country. In this context, the project on financial counseling service for poor self-employed women in India started by SEWA is well known.
Project Tomorrow, as it is called, was started in 2001 with a purpose to develop and test a financial counseling curriculum to help participants manage money productively, plan ways to increase assets, address life cycle events, manage risks. Through this project, SEWA has set up a training unit and training delivery system and is developing tools and procedures to monitor the counseling work.