WELCOME TO

Our work in India.

We work with grassroots organizations in India on scaling innovations on gender equity and sustainable economic opportunities for local communities and support evidence generation through a participatory and adaptive approach.

Our Global Partners

Collaborating with leading organizations worldwide to create meaningful impact and drive positive change in communities across the globe.

Araucania Aprende

3ie

Fundación Colunga

Fundación Chol Chol

Fundación Chile

Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente

Fundacion 99

Fundação CAEd

Formando Chile

Foncodes

FAO

Espacio Público

Co-Impact

CAMFED

Breakthrough Trust

BRAC – Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative

Balloon Latam

Argidius

Financiera Sustentable

Harambee

IDB Lab

IDInsight

IEPS

Ilifa

Instituto Gesto

Instituto Natura

Jharkhand State Rural Livelihoods

Laboratório de Educação

Lemann Foundation

Gates Foundation

Gerando Falcoes

Fundación Crecer

Fundacion Huella Local

Fundación Impulso Docente

Fundación Infancia Primero

Fundación MC

Fundación Plagio

Fundación Olivo

Fundación Trabün

Scaling Convergence of Social and Economic Programs

Sambodhi

Red de Impacto

Project Concern International India

Pratham

Pradan

Poverty Stoplight (Fundación Paraguaya)

PCIC

ONU Mulheres

ONU Mujeres

NRLM

MP State Rural Livelihoods

Mapa do Acolhimento

Manizales Más

Lwala

Lever for Change

Patio Vivo

World Bank – Social Enterprise Development Program

World Bank

Vijayavahini Charitable Foundation

UP State Rural Livelihoods Mission

UN Women

Umane

Transform Rural India (TRIF)

The Nudge Institute

Teaching at the Right Level (TARL) Africa

Solar Sister

SmartStart

SEWA Bharat

SEWA

Our Work in India.

Seeing like a State or Seeing the State? A Qualitative Study of a Government Program to Support Women’s Self-Help Groups in Madhya Pradesh, India

Working Paper

Seeing like a State or Seeing the State? A Qualitative St...

Apr 2nd 2025

This paper explores the nature of interactions between the state and village socie...

Building Value Chains led by SHG Women through Community Institutions of the NRLM – The Unnat Agri-business Enterprise Model

Working Paper

Building Value Chains led by SHG Women through Community ...

Dec 1st 2023

A case of the Unnat Agri-Business Enterprise Model as a means for women's liv...

How Pratham Learns while Scaling: A case study of adaptive design and evaluation

Working Paper

How Pratham Learns while Scaling: A case study of adaptiv...

Nov 18th 2023

A case of how Pratham learns using the lens of an Adaptive Evaluation

Lessons from the field: Implementing a women’s collectives-based social enterprise in rural India

Article

Lessons from the field: Implementing a women’s collective...

Jun 1st 2023

“You’re telling us that we’ll have to sell products in the village to earn extra i...

Understanding the diverse dimensions of women’s agency: Field Notes from Bihar

Article

Understanding the diverse dimensions of women’s age...

Sep 7th 2022

In March 2022, I visited Karn Bhumi, a women-owned farmer producer company promote...

Scaling Convergence for Social and Economic Services and Programmes in Rural India: Conceptual Framework and Evidence Review

Working Paper

Scaling Convergence for Social and Economic Services and ...

Jan 31st 2022

A critical review of the gains and viability of two flagship programs of the Minis...

Supporting Women’s Collective Enterprises—what we do and what we don’t know

Working Paper

Supporting Women’s Collective Enterprises—what we d...

Feb 17th 2021

This paper synthesizes the existing literature on worker cooperatives and accelera...

Values and Value Chains: the Intersection of Grassroots Mobilization and Enterprise Development in India

Working Paper

Values and Value Chains: the Intersection of Grassroots M...

Oct 1st 2018

Scaling up women’s enterprise activity is characterized by the tension between “va...

SEWA makes surveying a reciprocal act

Blog

SEWA makes surveying a reciprocal act

Aug 5th 2016

SEWA has been undertaking a census of all its 1.5 to 2 million women members this ...

Learn more about our programs in India

MLE Convergence

Project MOVE

Women-led agribusiness

Women Enterprise Support