The summer of 2020 was a strange time, not just in India but across the world. COVID 19 had just changed the face of the world and how we did things. Lives were lost and economies fell.
The MOVE intervention was continuing in SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association), India’s largest organized movement driven towards improving women’s economic outcomes. MOVE is a 5 year project aimed at empowering communities with sustainable social enterprises. MOVE does this through discovery and implementation of interventions that help women-owned collective enterprises achieve the twin goals of financially sustainable growth and improvements of women’s economic well-being and agency. It’s core elements include, an enterprise support system, a learning hub and advocacy function.
There are three major phases. The first is a needs assessment designed to identify the core challenges faced by the enterprise. The second is designing intervention that work through an agile methodology with the support of mentorship. The third and final part, is using the learnings from the design phase to design protocols that can be scaled to other enterprises.
