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Essay

Leveraging digital technologies to enable women’s co-operatives: experience of national insurance VimoSEWA Co-operative Ltd.

 

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dr. Uma Rani, International Labour Office (ILO), Geneva for her guidance in this essay. We would like to thank SEWA Federation and their team Ms. Mittal Shah, Managing Director at SEWA Federation, Ms. Salonie Hiriyur Murlidhar, Senior Coordinator at SEWA Federation, and Ms. Palak Gadhiya, Research Manager at SEWA Federation for providing this opportunity. We would like to acknowledge and thank our team at National Insurance VimoSEWA Cooperative Ltd. Ms. Firdos Ajmeri, Lead, MIS Team, Mr. Akash Shrivastava, Coordinator, New Programs, and Ms. Sharvari Parikh, Program Associate, Ms. Falguni Shah, Coordinator, Claims Team, and Ms. Sheetal Christian, Lead Accounts for their direct or indirect contribution in the essay.

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Notes on contributors

Ruchi Agarwal

Ruchi Agarwal is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Insurance VimoSEWA Cooperative Ltd. where she is the head of the co-operative. Ruchi is an experienced management and development-sector professional from IRMA. She has held multiple senior management positions in international bilateral entities as Business Advisor, a global policy centre at IIMA, a philanthropic foundation, among others. Postal address: Chanda Niwas, Opp Karnavati Hospital, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad 380006 Email: [email protected]

Mirai Chatterjee

Mirai Chatterjee is the Director of the Social Security Team at the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She is also Chairperson of the SEWA Cooperative Federation of 110 women’s primary co-operatives and was the Chairperson of the National Insurance VimoSEWA Cooperative Ltd. and the Lok Swasthya SEWA Health Cooperative, and is presently actively involved in both as a Board member and founder. She joined SEWA in 1984 and was its General Secretary after its founder, Ela Bhatt. Email: [email protected]

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