SEWA Cooperative Federation Knowledge Hub

SEWA Cooperative Federation documents and shares insights from working with women’s cooperatives across sectors. The Knowledge Hub brings together reports, policy briefs, studies, and media that reflect how cooperative enterprises function and evolve.

Browse recent publications, explore different types of knowledge, or access key documents that trace how this work has developed.

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In Solidarity | Our 30 Year Journey | A Film

SEWA Cooperative Federation promotes and supports grassroots women workers' cooperatives and collective enterprises with a view of economically empowering women in the informal sector.

Strengthening Women’s Cooperatives : The Experience of SEWA (32 Years) (An ILO Report)

At a time when informal workers continue to face economic insecurity, climate risks, digital exclusion, and unequal care responsibilities, the report offers lessons from SEWA’s experience on how collective enterprise can strengthen livelihoods, expand opportunities, and enable women to participate more fully in economic and social decision-making.

Our 20 Year Report (1992-2012)

This publication reflects on the values and vision that guided the Federation’s work from 1992 to 2012.

Our 10 Year Report (1992-2002)

The report documents how women from the informal economy strengthened their enterprises through training, market access, design support, research, financial services, and institution building.

Sahakarita Vol. 13 | Our Newsletter

Sahakarita Volume 13 explores how informal women workers are responding to climate change through collective enterprise, local knowledge, and cooperation.

Sahakarita Vol. 12 | Our Newsletter

Sahakarita Volume 12: Voices, Vision, & Victory celebrates the leadership, resilience, and collective power of informal women workers shaping India’s cooperative movement.