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PRESENTATION ONPRESENTATION ON
Empowerment of Poor Women on a Large Scale
Carried out bySelf Employed Women’s Association
(SEWA)
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Flow Flow About SEWA
◦ Goal ◦ Movement◦ Activity
Research methodology ◦ Objective◦ Research Technique ◦ Limitation of study◦ Data collection◦ Findings◦ Conclusion
Bibliography
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Self Employed Women’s Association
SEWA is a National Trade Union Established by Shri Elaben Bhatt in 1972
An organisation of poor, self-employed women workers
Who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses
They are the unprotected labour force of our country
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93% of the workforce is in the informal economy93% of the workforce is in the informal economySEWA organises informal women workers.SEWA organises informal women workers.
THE INFORMAL ECONOMYTHE INFORMAL ECONOMY
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SEWA’S GOALSSEWA’S GOALS
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Full Employment
◦Food Security
◦Social Security - health care - child care - insurance - shelter - pension
Self-Reliance
◦ Economic◦ Decision-making
and control
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Is the organisation is in the direction of this two
goal ?
To find out its performance constant
monitoring and evaluation is necessary
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SEWA’s Eleven questionSEWA’s Eleven question1. Have more members obtained more employment ?2. Has their income increased ?3. Have they obtained food and nutrition ?4. Has their health been safeguarded ?5. Have they obtained child-care?6. Have they obtained or improved their housing ?7. Have their assets increased ? (e.g. their own
savings, land, house, work-space, tools or work, licenses, identity cards, cattled and share in cooperatives; and all in their own name.
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8. Have the worker’s organisational strength increased ?
9. Has worker’s leadership increased ?10. Have they become self-reliant both collectively and individually?11. Have they become literate?
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SEWA movementSEWA movement SEWA adopts an Integrated & Need based Approach to Organizing It is a member-based movement of about 7,00,000 poor, informal
sector women workers of India
Works in 7 states of India 14 districts of Gujarat, covering 50% of the State of Gujarat
SEWA’s membership in Gujarat – 5,35,674 2/3rd of SEWA members live in rural areas
Members represent more than 125 different kind of trades There are about 3500 local producers groups and 9 Economic
Federation
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It is a sangam or confluence of three movements◦ Labour movement◦ Co-operative movement◦ Women’s movement
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Scaling-up in the Recent Past• Membership Growth in Gujarat
– From 1070 in 1972 to 535674 in 2007
Sheet
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Geographical CoverageGeographical Coverage
◦Started with organizing in Ahmedabad City
◦Now operates in 14 districts of Gujarat
◦7 states in India◦Other countries – South Africa,
Yemen, Turkey etc.
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ActivityActivityMembers work◦ In markets, in their own home, in
fields others and their own, in forests, on riverbanks and in the desert.
The members are divided in 4 categories
◦ Home based workers◦ Vendors or Hawkers◦ Manual laborers ◦ service providers and Producers
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◦Supportive activities includes Organizing the informal Sector women
into their own organizations Capacity Building Livelihood security activities ( child care
) Marketing Services Financial Services ( insurance , banks ) Social Security Activities Video
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To fulfill the requirement of unemployed women SEWA provides education and training. So that poor women can get work and serve their purpose.
Following activities are carried for the upliftment of women in societyA.Vocational trainingB.Capacity buiding training
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Vocational trainingBy upgrading women’s existing skills,
SEWA’s vocational training can increase women’s earning potential and security.
Vocational training programmes are carefully planned with women’s needs and emerging market realities in mind.
Programs are developed in partnership with supportive, skilled instructors.
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Capacity buiding training
Capacity building programs can roughly be
divided into ◦leadership ◦technical◦exposure and dialogue program◦non-formal education program
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leadershipleadershipLeadership training programmes
form the essential core capacity building program
They ensure that the basic framework, vision and strategies of the movement are understood by all and that women are able to deliver this message to other women, policy makers, and the world as leaders.
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technicalToday's world is unforeseen without
Information Technology where computer's is a must.
New generation is moving a step further towards Information Technology field. The women from the informal sector need to be trained so that their future can be brightened up.
SEWA Academy offers MS Office at basic level and DTP and Tally at advanced level
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EDP programEDP programParticipants live with a SEWA member and
follow her daily activities for three days and nights.
After the visit, the participants and women come together to share their experiences, analyse the policies and structures contributing to poverty, and develop alternate approaches that meet real needs.
EDP helps participants move beyond a theoretical, abstract understanding to experience first-hand the realities of village life, the needs of self-employed women, and the effect of SEWA’s services, and the strengths of the women.
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Research MethodologyResearch Methodology
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Scope Scope
As we know about the Indian economy. We face major problem about 3 P’s, which is Poverty, Population and Politics as well as unemployment is also our major problem.
Our NGO SEWA providing the education & training to the women basically from the rural areas. They try to minimize the unemployment problem for women.
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Research objectiveResearch objectiveTo understand working of self employed
woman’s association, and activities carried by its Academy centre,
Its contribution to the society and especially for woman employment.
By doing this project and visiting the self employed woman’s association, and Academy center we can understand that how can poor people or illiiterate people can work and head of N.G.O. managed the people in large number.
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Data sources
Primary data - Collected through personal visit &
interview of Mentor & womanSecondary data - Through broacher & website of NGO
Research methods Exploratory Research
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LimitationLimitationManagement are not willing to share
internal details
Can’t visit the work place of SEWA
Time constraint during the project was one of the limitations because the college working hours and NGO’s working hours are clash
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Data collection Data collection Personal Interview Miss. Rahima medam ( Retired Secretory of SEWA trade facility
centre , Laldarwaja ) Miss. Reema Kapoor ( Mentor, SEWA Academy, Ellisbridge )Miss Subhra medam
(Mentor, SEWA trade facility centre , Laldarwaja )
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Cases through net Cases through net
Hansaben is a trainer in SEWA’s production unit.
Having three childrenShe was a read made garment worker (stitched traditional
garments )She was contacted by the SEWA organizers for a survey being
conducted to enable them to understand how to provide sustainable income to traditional ready-made garment
She was selected for the training program at NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology) and received intensive training in using state of the art technology in stitching and finishing
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Nowadays she can earn about Rs.3000 pm
As per her words “ SEWA has made a tremendous
change in my life, and now I am earning
enough to sustain my family and provide my children with two square meals ”
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FindingsFindings SEWA motivates & helps unemployed women to
be self reliable SEWA provide full support in marketing of hand
craft product. SEWA doesn’t directly approach to the women but at
the initial stage its special research team collects information about that particular area and women who are poor and unemployed.
According to findings of that survey SEWA decide to launch their activities in that are.
This research carried by SEWA , using managerial knowledge definitely helped women and they can get maximum advantage of the activities carried by SEWA.
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ConclusionConclusion The Task force and Trade Security
Fund must be formed keeping in mind the long term implications of women’s participation in trade as driving force for economic growth and development.
Linkages have to be established with private sector and civil society organizations. Such partnerships should address the needs of all the stakeholders involved, thus creating a win-win situation for high economic growth and development.
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BibliographyBibliography Annual Report of SEWA
Broacher of SEWA Academy
www.sewa.org
www.sewaacademy.org
www.sewaresearch.org
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