Every year on July 15th, World Youth Skills Day serves as a global reminder of the critical role of skill…
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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…