RESULT BRIEF September 2022
Packaging of sanitizers in the time of COVID-19. Photo: SEWA.
ASSESSING PANDEMIC IMPACT ON SOCIAL ENTERPRISES OF SEWA Insights from women-led micro-enterprises owned and managed by members of SEWA INTRODUCTION
The members of SEWA are the poorest of the poor. To provide them with sustainable livelihood opportunities, SEWA has tried to organize them based on their skills into economic organizations wholly owned and managed by workers, thereby integrating the informal sector women workers at all stages of the value chain. While these economic organizations owned and managed by the workers
RESULTS BRIEF: ASSESSING PANDEMIC IMPACT ON SOCIAL ENTERPRISES OF SEWA
are self-sustaining and have provided work and income security to hundreds of informal sector women workers, they do not have surplus capital to sustain themselves against the market shocks like the current pandemics. In the current pandemic, while the global and national supply chains were disrupted and have not resumed fully for over two years, how do 1