Reema Nanavaty Keywords Self-Employed Women’s Association SEWA Read more about Reema Nanavaty Reema Nanavaty leads Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) economic and rural development activities reaching out to seventeen million women and their families across India. Since 1989 she has pioneered revival, restoration, and innovation of rural livelihoods from district to global level. Reema is being recognized across India and in the neighboring countries as a champion of making livelihoods of the poor women reach markets they deserve.
Self Employed Women's Association: A Collective Voice of Women Read more about Self Employed Women's Association: A Collective Voice of Women Women in the informal sector are vulnerable, posing threat on their income security, food security, and social security. The Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) was established to help women become individually and collectively self-reliant, economically independent, and capable of making their own decisions. Poor women are the owners, managers, and beneficiaries under the association. SEWA now has 1.9 million members and over 100 affiliated organizations working to empower women in the informal sector mainly by promoting financial inclusion and social security.