While women act as natural resource managers, new skills and the latest
developments in these areas rarely reach them. SEWA’s capacity building program
trains women in the technical skills necessary to manage these natural resources that
significantly affect their livelihood. These programs increase women’s
self-confidence, their individual and community livelihood and decreasing their reliance
on the government.
For example, SEWA members
have been trained to repair water hand pumps as part of its campaign to ensure access to
water. Women in rural, arid regions now can repair water hand pumps that often went
abandoned, un-repaired and useless for years. Training and skill upgradation in
cultivating nurseries in forest areas has provided both critical income as well as
restoring natural resources.
