To strengthen the SHG movement in West Bengal, SHGPF plays a significant role by promoting SHG Leadership Development Programme. SHGPF arranged several workshops for empowering SHG leaders on various related issues like Quality of SHG, Function of SHG Cluster and Federation, The role of SHG in Gram Unnayan Samity, Micro Insurance and in other hand Legal Right of Women, Violence Against Women, Social Responsibility of SHG are important. To improve the documentation part a workshop on how to bring case study and the way of presenting the same was done in Swalpa Bitta Barta Workshop. In these programmes the leaders directly interacted with NGO, Donors, Representatives from Government Departments and individuals. Mainly Federation / Cluster leaders from West Bengal actively participated in these participatory programmes. Another significant effort of SHGPF is to arrange Federation Workshop which is very popular among SHG Federation/cluster Leaders.

SHGPF arranged exposure visit for the SHG leaders of SHGPF member organization which is very useful. The learning from the exposure visit was in Andra Pradesh, various national/international seminars were useful. The experience and learning were shared with SHGPF members.