{"id":1039,"date":"2026-03-27T06:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1039"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:27:37","slug":"report_ilo_advancing-cooperation-among-women-workers-in-the-informal-economy_-the-sewa-way","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/publication\/report_ilo_advancing-cooperation-among-women-workers-in-the-informal-economy_-the-sewa-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Cooperation Among Women Workers in the Informal Economy | The SEWA Way | A Report by ILO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i style=\"white-space: normal;\">Advancing Cooperation Among Women Workers in the Informal Economy: The SEWA Way<\/i><span style=\"white-space: normal;\">\u00a0explores how SEWA has used the cooperative model to strengthen the livelihoods, leadership, and economic security of informal women workers.P<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"white-space: normal;\">ublished by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the report traces SEWA\u2019s journey from organizing women workers through a union to building women-owned and women-managed cooperatives across sectors such as agriculture, dairy, finance, insurance, childcare, healthcare, handicrafts, and services. Through twelve case studies, it demonstrates how collective enterprise can improve access to markets, social protection, financial services, and decision-making power.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"white-space: normal;\">The report also examines the challenges faced by women\u2019s cooperatives, the role of the Gujarat State Women\u2019s SEWA Cooperative Federation in nurturing them, and key lessons for adapting and replicating similar models worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-space-between is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-0b5a8419 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Report_ILO_Advancing-cooperation-among-women-workers-in-the-informal-economy_-The-SEWA-way.pdf\" style=\"background-color:#114056;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;text-transform:uppercase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the Pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report also examines the challenges faced by women\u2019s cooperatives, the role of the Gujarat State Women\u2019s SEWA Cooperative Federation in nurturing them, and key lessons for adapting and replicating similar models worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1041,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"publication-category":[27],"class_list":["post-1039","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-category-research-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36919,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1039\/revisions\/36919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-category?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}