Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Location: SEWA Reception Centre, Opp. Victoria Garden, Bhadra, Ahmedabad-380001, Gujarat, India
Contact Person: Reema Nanavaty, Director / Megha Desai & Chhya Bhavsar, Coordinators
Phone: 91-79-25506444 / 25506477 / 2550644
E-mail: reemananavaty@sewa.org / asiafarmersforum@sewa.org
Website: www.sewa.org
The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is a member-based organization of poor self-employed women workers of the informal sector in India. Founded in 1972. It has a current membership of 1.7 million women workers from 18 states from India. has a presence across the SAARC region in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. SEWA members are organized into 4813 Self Help Groups, 160 Cooperatives, and 15 economic federations, and 3 producer companies.
Nearly two-thirds of SEWA’s members live in rural areas and small and marginal farmers are having the largest membership of about 55%. Agriculture is a key source of livelihood and food security for most families. SEWA’s members include small and marginal farmers, landless agricultural sharecroppers, casual laborers, fisherfolks, salt workers. Forestry workers and animal husbandry. SEWA runs an agriculture campaign with three prolonged frameworks of agriculture, water, and energy. There are major four pillars of the campaign: (1) organizing, capacity building, and access to technical services, (2) access to agriculture inputs, (3) financial services, and (4) market linkages. The four pillars of the agriculture campaign helped SEWA etched out a working model of agriculture development that emphasizes developing the farm as an enterprise and shifts the focus from mere subsistence to viability and profitability. Climate-resilient practices have been gradually interwoven in this model over the past couple of decades. This helps its members to lead to structural transformations of becoming fully self-sustainable and profitable, moving it away from subsistence.
SEWA’s works with 2.6 million family farmers across India through its Agriculture Campaign and the National Farmer’s Forum Network It provides a national-level platform for the farmer’s organizations working with small and marginal farmers for sharing, learning, and policy advocacy training, provision of high-quality inputs and equipment, improvement of access to credit, development of market linkages and marketing business support services, provision of weather insurance and regular dialogue with policy-makers at all levels of government, All These contribute to an enabling environment for rural poverty reduction, through instrumental support to rural smallholders and their organizations at the national level.
SEWA Madhya Pradesh (MP)
Membership: 551250 women from informal sector
Location: 96-B, Vaishali nagar, Annapurna Road, Indore (M.P)-452009, India
Contact Person: Shikha Joshi, General Secretary
Phone: +91 0731-2483150
E-mail: sewa.madhyapradesh@gmail.com
Website: www.sewamadhyapradesh.org
Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE)
Membership: 38400
Location: 195, Jodhpur Park-Kolkata-700068, India
Contact Person: Dr. Ujjaini Halim, Executive Director
Phone: +913324732740 / + 9830299326
E-mail: ujjainiimse@gmail.com
Website: http://imse-india.org
Indian Federation of Toiling Peasants (IFTOP)
Membership:35305
Location: Vill. Digalpahari, P.O. Dhanbhasa, P.S. Ranishwar, District Dumk, Santhal Pargana, Jharkand, India
Contact Person: Nikhil Ranjan Maity, Assistant General Secretary
Phone: +919530185156
Email: bipimse1974@gmail.com
East Coast Fish Workers Union (ECFWU)
Membership: 26581
Location: 20 N.K. Ghosal Road Camp: Vill., P.O. Chandaneswar Dist. Baleshwar Odisha, Kolkata-700042, India
Contact Person: Sanker Behra, General Secretary
Phone: +9133-2473-2740
E-mail: ujjainiimse@gmail.com
Kokila Vikas Ashram
Membership: 2400 (171 groups)
Location: Sonapur Gohpur Sonitpur-784168 Assam, India
Contact Person: Shri Hareshkumar Bhatt, Founder
Phone: +919435563879 / +919954958381 (Mobile)
Email: harishbhatt132@gmail.com
Nari Gunjan
Membership: 155535 groups)
Location: Prerana Hostel Lalkotti Danapur, Patna-801503, Bihar, India
Contact Person: Sudha Varghese, Secretary
Phone: +916115-22448 / +919431025201
E-mail: varghesesudha@gmail.com
Website: http://narigunjan.org
Parvatiya Kisan Manch
Location: Village-Chinoni, Post bhagoti-263656 Chaukhutia, Almora -263656 Uttrakhand, India
Contact Person: Sonali Bisht
Phone: +919650525606
E-mail: sonali.bisht@yahoo.co.in
Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education (INHERE)
Membership: 12317 (410 groups)
Location: Village-Chinoni, Post bhagoti-263656 Chaukhutia, Almora 263656 Uttrakhand, India
Contact Person: Sonali Bisht, Director
Phone: +919650525606
E-mail: sonali.bisht@yahoo.co.in
Website: www.inhereindia.org
North East India Committee On Relief & Development (NEICORD)
Membership: 6090
Location: Shalom Nongrimbah Road, Laitumkhrah, Shillong-793003, Meghalaya, India
Contact Person: Baloralin Sohkhlet, Manager Programme & Quality
Phone: +919436101517
Email: baloneicord@gmail.com
Website: www.neicord.org
SEWA Uttar Pradesh
Membership: 100450 (250 groups)
Location:3/93 Vikas Nagar, Lucknow- 226022, Uttar Pradesh, India
Contact Person: Farida Jalees, General Secretary
Phone: +919235303506 / +919450394857
E-mail: faridajalees@gmail.com
SEWA Kerala
Membership: 18000 (120 groups)
Location: KRAD-51 Kuthiravattom Lane Kunnumpuram, Trivandrum Kerala, India
Contact Person: Sonia George, General Secretary
Telephone: +91-4712-470167
Mobile Phone: +919446551484
Email: soniageorgem@gmail.com
Website: www.sewakerala.org
SEWA Rajasthan
Membership: 2000 (76 groups)
Location: C Block, Punarnivas Colony, In front of Vidhyaniketan School, Block Sagwara, Dungerpur, Rajasthan-314025, India
Contact Person: Bhavnaben Suthar, Executive Committee
Mobile Phone: +919001624141
Sehjar Community Resource Center
Membership: 3483
Location: Near Government Women College, Salkoot, Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir
Contact Person: Aamina, President / Showkat, Coordinator
Phone: +919906940111
Sikkim Pragatishil Nari Cooperative Society Ltd
Location: Village Nandugav, Block Jorethang, South Sikkim Sikkim
Contact Person: Sunita Rai
Phone: +919593708021
North East Rural Livelihood Promotion Society
Membership: 1029
Location: Old Market, Jalukie Town, Peren, Nagaland-797110, India
Contact Person: District Project Management Unit (Peren)