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Women-Led Micro Movements: Shaping the Future of Work

Sixty-seven per cent of India’s 1.4 billion population is in the working age group, and over 100 million young women and men are expected to seek gainful employment by 2030. However, the nation is close to facing an employment crisis, as the market is ill-equipped to absorb them. Despite being …

Empowering Rural Women: A Catalyst for Global Change

‘When you empower women, you empower a nation’ As we approach the International Day of Rural Women on October 15, it is crucial to recognise the remarkable contributions of rural women to the socio-economic fabric of our world. These women are at the forefront of food production, natural resource management …

Shifting Systems, Collectively

Collective action has been an integral part of Development Alternatives’ approach to creating impact at scale. Unique to most civil society organisations in India, we have, since the late 1980s, built programmes around three types of collaborative structures: community partnerships, business networks and policy alliances. In the last decade, the …