Overview

Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) is committed to promote sustainable community development by repositioning women as change makers and fostering collective leadership. SSP works in low income, climate threatened communities, and has built robust partnership eco-systems that enable women’s social and economic empowerment and leadership in the context of inclusive and sustainable development. In the last decade, SSP has reached out to over 6 million people, and empowered over 200,000 women mostly from farming communities to revitalize their households and local economies in Maharashtra and other States across India.

The wCOREL project promotes community driven resilience and change by women at all levels –households and communities to markets and local governance systems – resulting in sustainable livelihoods and well-being for all women and families. The project focuses on women-led climate resilient farming. SSP is working on de-risking agriculture and promoting women’s decision-making by encouraging organic cultivation of multiple indigenous food crops and livelihood diversification to ensure household health, nutrition and income security. The Women-led Climate Resilient Farming (WCRF) model (also called 1-acre farming model) transforms marginalised women farmers in climate-risk areas into resilient leaders, with better livelihoods and wellbeing by positioning them as agri-innovators and decision makers.

OVERVIEW

Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) has been empowering women who are traditionally at the margin of society and economy into the mainstream of development and governance since 1998. SSP works in low income, climate threatened communities, and has built robust partnership eco-systems that enable women’s social and economic empowerment and leadership in the context of inclusive and sustainable development. In the last decade, SSP has reached out to over 6 million people, and empowered over 200,000 women mostly from farming communities to revitalize their households and local economies in Maharashtra and other States across India.

The wCOREL project promotes community driven resilience and change by women at all levels –households and communities to markets and local governance systems – resulting in sustainable livelihoods and well-being for all women and families. The project is focused on advancing women’s social leadership and community resilience, promoting economic resilience for women’s collectives as farmers, producers and forging inclusive governance and convergence while building partnerships with key stakeholders for sustainability.

Results

The W+ Standard was used to measure women’s benefits in two domains: Income & Assets and Leadership. These were employed to measure the impacts from the Project’s investment that yield benefits to women and their communities through increased incomes, improved agribusiness skills and access to external resources.

Leadership results: The percentage of change in women’s leadership capabilities from baseline conditions is 127%.

Income & Assets results: The overall percentage of change from baseline conditions is 101.2%