Bridging the Knowledge Gap on Women’s Cooperatives Across the Delhi Declaration (2019), the National Conference on Women’s Cooperatives (2022), and…
Young workers at a crossroads In today’s changing world of work, youth participation in cooperatives has become both a challenge and an…
Snakes, Ladders, and Sustainable Farming with Vatrak Cooperative Bringing Climate Resilience Training to Vatrak Women Farmers As the SEWA Cooperative…
This article is written by Rachna Chandira, Hansa Parmar and Paresh Bambhania for National Cooperative Union of India’s The Cooperator (magazine)…
This article is written by Alpa Dave 1 & Aparimita Pramanik 2 for National Cooperative Union of India’s The Cooperator…
Agriculture is the lifeline for millions of women farmers in India, yet their contributions often go unrecognized. Women make up…
For over 32 years, we have been supporting women-led cooperatives in the informal economy, witnessing women cooperators breaking traditional boundaries,…
Women farmers in the Global South, particularly in India, face multiple barriers in accessing essential agricultural inputs, modern technologies, and…
A Journey of Culture, Empowerment, and Financial Literacy What does an Annual General Meetings of Women’s Cooperatives from the informal…
How Can Federations Support Women’s Cooperatives for Financial Resilience and Sustainable Development? Across the globe, informal employment represents over half…
Empowering the Grassroots Leaders for Change – A SEWA COOperative Federation Fellowship 8 collectives. 16 women leaders. 27000 dreams. For…
Despite women constituting nearly 50% of the population, their representation in business ownership is disproportionately low. In India, women own…
In 1999, amidst the bustling APMC Mandi (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) in Jamalpur, Gujarat, 120 shops thrived, yet only one…
“Mere liye mera kaam bahut mayne rakhta hai, kaam ke vajah se meri jindagi acchi se chal raha hai” –…
The Daduram temple hall of Parsantaj village in Kheda witnessed a powerful event today. Women members of the Kheda Women…
Every year on July 15th, World Youth Skills Day serves as a global reminder of the critical role of skill…
Cooperatives have long been powerful tools for economic empowerment and social change, particularly for marginalized communities. With 1.2 billion members…
Hyperlocal solutions for Sustainable Communities Elaben Bhatt, the founder of SEWA, emphasizes in her book Anubandh that empowering people and…
The process of registration and election in cooperatives is fundamental to upholding democracy within these organisations, ensuring accountability and representation…
Almost a fifth of the world’s 2 billion informal workers reside in India, where informal employment dominates both agriculture (99%)…
Anannya Bhattacharjee is a prominent local labour organiser and trade unionist in the northwest region of India. She believes that…
In our podcast episode, with Dr. Ashwini Deshpande, she discussed a prevalent issue in developing countries like India: the concept…
The collective social enterprises that the informal workers had so painstakingly built over the years are struggling to survive. Many…
“When they brought in a computer in ‘96 I thought that I was done; that they’d let me go and…
Self-reliance (Hindi: स्वावलंबन/swavlamban) lies at the heart of the SEWA movement and is the foundation on which the Swavlamban programme…
Part of our work at SEWA Cooperative Federation is to bring visibility and networking opportunities to women and their collective…
As part of SEWA Cooperative Federation’s continued effort to provide a platform for women artisans, SEWA Kalakruti has designed and…
Sahinaben belongs to a household where resources are scarce. She learned of SEWA’s work from her neighbour who works at…
Having the option of accessing finance to keep their operations going can be a matter of survival for collective social…
With the country slowly reopening and the situation returning to relative normalcy, many would think that the use of the…
At our recently concluded webinar on Atmanirbhar Bharat jointly organised with NCUI and SEWA Bharat, SEWA Cooperative Federation launched a…
SEWA Cooperative Federation, in association with the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) and SEWA Bharat jointly organised a webinar…
The Global Social Economy Forum, SEWA Cooperative Federation and International Forum SSE (IFSSE) co-organised a virtual event on women and…
Digital Financial services have become an undeniable need that saw a huge surge during the lockdown. However, there remains a…
SEWA Federation Chairperson Mirai Chatterjee was featured in a World Bank session titled ‘Protect and Invest in the People: Human…
On the occasion of #WorldMaskWeek, we at SEWA Cooperative Federation have partnered with Hyderabad-based Parisodhana Technologies, and professors at MIT…
Greetings sisters and brother in the cooperative movement and the trade union movement. I am Mirai Chatterjee from the…
As the COVID pandemic continues to spread, there is an acute shortage of basic protective equipment like face masks. The…
Lead: A SEWA Federation collective of tribal women farmers is using Whatsapp to spread awareness about COVID-19. As the disease…
The COVID pandemic continues to have an unprecedented impact as we observe a shortage in the supply of health products…
Champaben works as a care giver for 80 year old Minalba who has limited mobility and is homebound. She has…
SEWA Federation supports women-led collective enterprises, and is itself registered as a cooperative! Every quarter, our elected Board of Directors…
By Mittal Shah (In December, 2019, this article was published by the National Cooperative Union of India’s journal – The…
Food preparation and feeding the family is closely linked to care work, and traditionally a woman’s job. We collectivised women…
Diyaben (70 years) joined Lok Swasthya Mandli two years ago: ‘when I step into the office, I forget my sorrows…
What is a cooperative? A social enterprise where the members are workers, managers and decision makers of the enterprise. This…
Sangeetaben grew up in Raipur, Ahmedabad amongst three sisters and one brother. She was sent to a hostel in fifth…
I have been working with the SEWA Homecare Cooperative for 3 years now and the learning never stops,” says Bhavikaben…