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This issue includes: News from SETU Africa including -- Exposure visit of SEWA team to Tanzania -- Ethiopian delegates visit to SEWA Bharat Head Office News from SEWA including SEWA’s Role in Empowering Low Income Women
Led by SEWA Bharat as part of its mandate to develop new SEWAs, SEWA Delhi started its efforts in 1999 by organizing women vegetable vendors in Jahangirpuri urban slum. During initial survey phase, SEWA identified a large number of home-based workers in eastern part of Delhi engaged in bindi, bangle...
Development Viewpoint, No. 83
Abstract: This paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative model of technological transfer. Responding to the proposal of large-scale mechanisation of the iron ore mines in Central India, the workers along with...
Abstract: ‘Grassroots innovations’ in India are receiving increasing attention from innovation scholars and policymakers alike. These innovations are individual or community efforts to solve the problems faced in one's daily life. Moreover, rather than responding to any ‘potential market’ demand...
Numerous countries have implemented seat reservations for women in politics over the past decades. Starting in the early 1990s, India’s flagship decentralisation reform instituted one-third seat reservations for women in local governance bodies. This column suggests that this political empowerment...
News from SETU Africa: Exposure visit of SEWA team to Ethiopia News from SEWA: International Literacy Day and SEWA’s Literacy Work: an outcome of Capacity-Building The CEO of the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) visits the SEWA Cooperative Federation Award conferred to SEWA Bank Annual...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.