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The legendary Working Women’s Forum (WWF) (India) – Indian Cooperative Network for Women (ICNW) hosted the historical virtual parallel event globally for the third time to the 67th Session of the UN Commission on Status of Women (UNCSW) now from Chennai H.Q.,
27 years of consultative status with UN H.Q, WWF-ICNW is the only cooperative network globally to be chosen for the parallel event for the third time.
This parallel event is entitled “Innovating Networks for Women’s Cooperative Leadership through Capacity Building-The International Network for Women in Cooperatives”.
The president of WWF-ICNW, Dr. Nandini Azad, delivered the introductory remarks and experience of WWF-INCW, which was inspired by many global participants.
Global cooperative networks of women are taking part alongwith mass cooperative workers of WWF/ICNW (both in English/Tamil). She stated500 poor women leaders, from Southern states will testify through case studies, successful entrepreneurs, inspiring life stories from the movement of young and old women.
Dr. Nandini Azad, President, WWF-ICNW in her Introductory remarks states that “ We are the only instance in the world that poor grassroots women have the courage to provide the leadership to convene the whole world online but to stress the importance of building woman’s leadership in cooperatives. That is mainly patriarchal to gear to fight on women’s struggles (women are about 25% in mixed cooperatives).
She continued, World leaders have increasingly admired our gender and equity model. On behalf of our 1000 members from 13 cooperative branches in India that are watching. We resolve to continue our work of the International Network of Women in Cooperatives (based at our Chennai H.Q.,).
Focused on women’s networks in cooperatives, advocating, struggling to represent women at higher echelons. She highlighted key issues and challenges faced by women in decision making levels in cooperatives.
Uniquely this event has, a face to face interaction of International activists (20 countries) with grassroots women in South India (4 states) today. Dr. Nandini Azad, how in a patriarchal world poor women are taking the leadership from India’s mass cooperatives, from slums/villages mobilizing globally.
The Working Women’s Forum (WWF) (India) – Indian Cooperative Network for Women (ICNW) is a social movement having reached approximately 6,00,000 poor women members in 4 southern states of India (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Telangana), leverage small petty loans to informal sector poor women engaged in 285 occupations. Using financial inclusion as the key, organizing poor women workers through credit groups, continuous loaning, counseling training in empowerment/ gender awareness/ skills. WWF-ICNW, is a role model for transformation of many other cooperatives of poor & vulnerable. The ICNW developed a model within the context of SDGs, (1,2,3,4,5,9,13 &14). Therefore poor women after availing loans, diversified business, trained as co-operators, become women leaders & contribute now globally convening International Cooperative Network for Women.
As a result, many women opt to work independently to take care of families & business through financial assistance plus from WWF-ICNW, emerging as successful entrepreneurs. WWF-ICNW have proved that if poor women are provided financial assistance & training, they will be leaders and not be poor any more.
Cooperatives have to play a vital role in combating gender inequality and lack of women’s representation in cooperatives in decision making. Cooperatives can act as new mechanism’s (instrument) in transforming poor & vulnerable women to successful entrepreneurs & leaders.
WWF-ICNW stand’s represented on most global unions/alliances of the International Cooperative Movement today “through elections”. Active global player on gender, livelihood and cooperative issues
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