'Empowerment Programming and Unpaid Care Work : Learning from 30 years of the Self Employed Women's Association in Madhya Pradesh (SEWA MP)'

This note examines the work of the Self Employed Women’s Association in Madhya Pradesh (SEWA MP) to understand how women’s economic empowerment (WEE) policy and programming can generate a ‘double boon’ – paid work that empowers women and provides more support for their unpaid care work responsibilities. The research was implemented in 2016, in the districts of Indore and Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. The research adopted a mixed-methods approach, with primary data consisting of quantitative and qualitative data, which were collected from women from low-income families who were engaged in paid work and had at least one child under the age of six, and their families. 60 per cent of these women were SEWA members