Four verticals. One federation.
Each vertical builds a layer of the federation — from a woman's first producer group to a regional brand with real market access. None stands alone; each is designed to hand its participants up into the next.
Women's enterprise
The entry point. Existing self-help groups are supported to become producer groups and microenterprises with real customers, not just savings circles.
- Microenterprises
- Producer groups
- Entrepreneurship support
Photograph — a group of women entrepreneurs. Source image unavailable; caption preserved.
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Photograph — a woman engaged in rural productive labour, illustrative of federation-scale production work. Source image unavailable; caption preserved.
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Rural manufacturing
The mechanism, not the mission. Community-owned production gives the federation recurring revenue and real assets — the machinery is a tool for ownership, not the point of the story.
- Packaged drinking water
- Value-added beverages
- Consumer products
- Contract manufacturing
Leadership development
Federations are only as strong as the women governing them. This vertical trains members for governance roles at every level, from village committee to federation board.
- Governance
- Financial literacy
- Business management
Photograph — a self-help group meeting. Source image unavailable; caption preserved.
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Photograph — women at a farmers' collective rally, India, representative of federation-scale collective voice. Source image unavailable; caption preserved.
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Community institutions
The scaffolding that turns individual groups into a durable federation — the legal and organisational structures that let ownership actually mean something.
- Self-help groups (SHGs)
- Producer groups
- Federations
- Cooperatives