SEWA Bharat in Publications

Through the Building Resilient Women Entrepreneurs program, USAID/India works with SEWA Bharat to enable women entrepreneurs and women-led cooperatives thrive and sustain themselves in a post-COVID-19 economy.

A microenterprise is defined as an enterprise with a maximum investment of INR 1 crore and an annual turnover of up to INR 5 Crores. This has resulted in over 63 million enterprises being recorded in India in 2019, up from 13.3 million in 2008.

Through the Building Resilient Women Entrepreneurs activity, USAID/India works with SEWA Bharat to help women entrepreneurs and women-led cooperatives thrive and sustain themselves in a post-COVID-19 economy.

The report reviewed the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on informal women workers. and initiated a call to support the most vulnerable in economic recovery.

The report captures the key recommendations to the government on the desirability and feasibility of standalone micro-insurance companies in India.

This report focuses on women in agriculture and the informal sector while identifying key concern areas and gaps in organizing women workers.

The study shows how digital assets enable women to reach wider markets, attain work opportunities, access information avenues, and skilling resources.

The report talks about the pilot program that was launched to showcase a successful community development initiative in the solar sector.

The report discusses whether or not Unconditional Cash Transfers can be incorporated into Indian social protection and economic policy.

The report is based on the pilot study conducted in Delhi to understand cash transfers for achieving food security and social protection.

The report is a product of a roundtable discussion between SEWA Bharat and International Innovations Corp addressed questions pertinent to women’s economic empowerment.

This report discusses challenges and opportunities for cooperatives and empowering informal women workers, with a specific focus on SEWA’s experience.

The study discusses the inclusion of women in the energy access supply chain and in energy programs and policies through a gender-centric approach.

SEWA conducted this study to cover the status of financial literacy and financial inclusion in two states namely, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

This paper aims to identify the opportunities available for women in India’s financial sector, and the obstacles they face in accessing them, both from the demand and supply side.

In 2012-13, an universal basic income was tested in a pilot study carried out in a tribal village in Madhya Pradesh and it that the basic income induced a series of changes that added up to being transformational.

This report aims to document the waste management challenges in Katihar district of Bihar, provide an overview of the SEWA model in response to these problems faced.

Given widespread insecurities in water, latrine, and bathroom access, a study was conducted to understand how these insecurities effect personal hygiene practices of poor women and girls in rural areas of Bihar.

The report was a cumulative approach to understand and recommend a decentralized approach to uplift and recognize the contribution and issues of women in informal labor.