Today's IE Thinc Session to Focus on Women's Collectives

By: WE Staff | Thursday, 30 June 2022

The achievement of India's ASHA employees, who received the WHO's Global Health Leader award for their front-line management of COVID-19, demonstrated that women can lead a mission focused on results. In reality, India has demonstrated how women's collectives can alter a country's social, economic, and cultural indicators. Their financial inclusion, economic stakeholdership, and restoration of their land rights have all been made possible by our self-help organisations and movements headed by women cooperatives. These collectives are ideal illustrations of the trickle-down effect and women taking the initiative to shape their own narrative.

Through self-help groups (SHGs), cooperatives for moms and adolescent girls, and mothers' groups, women are taking control of their own destinies in communities all over the world.

The objective is to provide resources, knowledge, and training to many women at once. By utilising the collective strength of its members, groups are able to make improvements that would be more difficult or impossible to make through individual-focused interventions. The third instalment of the IE Thinc Gender series, "Women Collectives: Change makers from the ground up," is being held at The Indian Express to better comprehend the transformational force of women who decide to rewrite their fates. It will concentrate on entrepreneurial women's collectives that have established their own brands, micro-finance collectives that have fueled their independence, and self-starter women's collectives who are driving change and compelling policy revision.

The keynote speaker for this edition will be Giriraj Singh, Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, who will discuss how the DAY-NRLM mission, the largest government initiative, is exclusively collaborating with rural women to rework gender equality in systemic processes of local governance and institutions, in stakeholdership in the economy, and in rights-based access to social justice.

The address will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Nita Kejrewal who is Joint Secretary, National Rural Livelihood Mission, Ministry of Rural Development, Chetna Sinha, Founder and Chairperson of Mann Deshi Bank and Mann Deshi Foundation, Anjini Kochar, Senior Research Fellow from 3ie, Bijal Brahmbhatt, Director, Mahila Housing SEWA Trust, Hasina Kharbhih, Founder and Chairperson of Impulse NGO Network and Madhu Krishna, Deputy Director, Gender Equality, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The discussion will be moderated by Rinku Ghosh, Editor, Special Projects.

This webinar series, which is being offered by IWWAGE, intends to bring together some of the most brilliant minds from academia, business, civil society, and, of course, the government to have a solutions-focused debate and offer some proposals on policy enablers.