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Upaya Social Ventures Announces Successful Exit From Tamul Plates
Upaya Social Ventures today announced its exit from its longstanding equity position in Tamul Plates, an Assam-based social enterprise that produces and markets high-quality, all-natural disposable plates and bowls made from arecanut (palm) tree leaves, all while creating jobs throughout a sustainable value chain
This Mother’s Day We Wish For Dignified Jobs For All Mothers At Work
This Mother’s Day, as two working mothers at Upaya, we reflected on what it would take to create dignified jobs for mothers from extremely poor households. Despite their hardships, these women have the strength and ability to address the difficult battle of being a worker, a woman, and a mother, but they can’t do it alone
Breaking The Bias For Women Entrepreneurs
“There hasn’t been a better time to be a woman entrepreneur”, said Ekta Jaju, Founder of ONganic in one of the conversations we had with her last year. This stuck with me. And it’s absolutely true, but I only partly agree.
Uncovering Hidden Gender Wage Inequalities
With our objective of creating dignified jobs clearly defined, our Impact Management strategy thus leads us into understanding and measuring what, how, and how much impact the jobholders are experiencing with their jobs and the resultant income.
Making Space For Strong Women To Be Themselves
In January, Upaya selected and launched a cohort of nine women-led businesses for a special accelerator in collaboration with MIT D-Lab. The focus of this program is to take a holistic approach to build capacity for investment readiness
This E-Commerce Logistics Company Hires Only Women
Over the last three years, Yogesh has led gender initiatives across the Delhi region and, in 2016, started Even Cargo. Yogesh knew that giving underprivileged women access to a dignified livelihood will lift them out of poverty, but he wanted to empower them to take on jobs traditionally worked by men.
Sanju, Rickshaw Driver
Sanju's life was transformed when she got her first job as a rickshaw driver through SMV Green
2018: The Year of “I Too”?
Looking back on 2017 – dubbed “The Unexpected (and Inspiring) Year of the Woman” by the mainstream media – makes us, as women, hopeful about 2018 and what lies ahead.