Background of the Project:
While the pandemic has stabilized for the moment, the need for recovery, rebuilding and resilience remains urgent in India. The economic impacts of COVID-19 are particularly acute in India, in part due to the vulnerability and scale of the informal sector. The COVID-19 pandemic in India has also had an unequal impact on women. To address these challenges, Nidan initiated a new livelihood intervention in Delhi. The target of our interventions are the women who have lost the means of income in their households in Covid-19 pandemic, whether that be their own ability to earn income or that of a family member.
Strategy:
Nidan organised these Women having new skills and resources that enhance their capacity to initiate market-based income generation activities. Through our proposed interventions, women will: gain confidence and increased mobility to enter the economic domain; have greater access to information, skills, resources, and income gains; overcome gender stereotypes at the household level; and undertake collective action to advance gender-inclusive financial institutions, policies and laws.
Also targeted short and medium-term impacts include:
Activate Existing SHGs from the urban informal settlements benefitting directly through livelihood interventions, with incomes increased by at least 10 percent and Enhanced access to improved livelihoods practices leveraging various government projects. Also targeting 10,000 people to aware and knowledge building on social protection schemes through community meetings and other communication channels.
Geography:
Nidan has presence in whole of Delhi but keeping the parameters of project in mind we chose East Delhi and South Delhi areas for intensive interventions
Through Nidan Shramik sathi app, Nidan started a survey of SHGs members and also Developed a Questionnaire on google form to conduct an emergency market mapping and assessment study to identify viable livelihoods.