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SEWA Program: Strengthening Womens’ Access to Economic Freedom Across Africa

UNFPA Liberia Country Programme Document 2020-2024

Deadline: 31 December 2019

Are you a woman aged 35 – 50 year who is a community-based leader of a primary cooperative or a grass- root Community Based Organization (CBOs)? If yes, then apply for the Self Employed Women’s Assosiation (SEWA) Program.

The objective of the program is to strengthening women’s access to economic freedom across Africa.

Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is the largest national trade union of poor informal sector women workers from the informal economy. Established in 1972, SEWA has been working relentlessly over the last 4.5 decades organizing over 1.9 million women workers across 18 states in India and also spread its wings of action in 7 south-Asian countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

Benefits

SEWA proposes to organize exposure visits for grass-root sisters from Africa aged 35 – 50 years to SEWA. During these visits, the participants would visit:

The initial 7-day exposure visit will enable sisters from Africa to understand the SEWA model and also identify the areas of interest for them, which can then be explored further for Training of trainers; SEWA will cater for international travel costs, local travels costs, accommodation and food costs during the visit.

For more information, visit https://icaafrica.coop/en/strengthening-womens-access-economic-freedom-across-africa

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