India is home to 10.96 crore non-agricultural informal workers employed across 6,50,48,400 unincorporated enterprises in manufacturing, trade, and other services. These workers generally perform home-based work or are engaged in informal producers’ cooperatives.

This report is a comprehensive farmer study, in Tapi district, where SEWA Federation’s member cooperative - The Tapi District Megha Adivasi Mahila Agriculture Producers’ Cooperative (Megha Mandali) - operates

As SEWA Cooperative Federation enters its thirty-third year, we reflect on a period full of learning, growth, change, and innovation. Two of our member cooperatives of women farmers - the Tapi District Megha Adivasi Mahila Agriculture Producers' Cooperative and the Kheda Women's Fruit and Vegetables Cooperative - beg an their journey towa rds digitisation through the E-Kheti programme, working closely with experienced partners like IT for Change, Digital Green, and others.

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As we celebrated thirty years of the SEWA Cooperative Federation with Elaben on 8th July 2022, little did we expect that it would be the last such special event with our beloved founder and leader of the SEWA movement. As we mourned her passing in November 2022, we strengthened our resolve to take her legacy forward.

While organising informal women workers into a union, SEWA or the Self-Employed Women’s Association, it became evident to Elaben, our founder, that union organising alone would not lead women to their goal of economic empowerment and self-reliance. The mainstream, nationalised banks at the time turned down the demands of financial services by SEWA members. It was in the early 1970s and microfinance led by women was not yet conventional.

The national workshop to strengthen women’s cooperatives through capacity-building was organized by the Gujarat SEWA Cooperative Federation (Federation), the International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific region (ICA-AP), the national federation of the SelfEmployed Women’s Association (SEWA), SEWA Bharat, and the International Labour Organisation (ILO, Geneva and New Delhi) on Aug 8th - 9th, 2019.fear in people.

The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), since its inception in 1980, is committed to the cause of equity and well-being of the poor and the marginalized. It has specifically been working towards bringing the issues and concerns...

The second wave of COVID-19 has spread quickly and ruthlessly, affecting both urban and rural parts of India. Largely due to an unprepared and overwhelmed health infrastructure, there has been a loss of many lives and livelihoods. The pandemic also continues to generate immense fear in people.

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