In
our
experience,
poor
women’s
growth,
development
and
employment
occurs
when
they
have
work
and
income
security
and
food
security.
It
also
occurs
when
they
are
healthy,
able
to
access
child
care
and
have
a
roof
over
their
heads.
In
order
to
ensure
that
we
are
moving
in
the
direction
of
our
two
goals
of
Full
Employment
and
Self
Reliance,
constant
monitoring
and
evaluation
is
required.
In
a
membership-based
organisation,
it
is
the
member’s
priorities
and
needs
which
necessarily
shapes
the
priorities
and
direction
of
the
organisation.
Hence,
it
is
appropriate
that
member's
themselves
develop
their
own
yardstick
for
evaluation.
The
following
eleven
question
have
emerged
from
the
members
and
continually
serve
as
a
guide
for
all
members,
group
leaders,
executive
committee
members
and
full-time
organisers
of
SEWA.
It
is
also
useful
for
monitoring
SEWA’s
progress
and
the
relevance
of
its
various
activities
and
their
congruence
with
member’s
reality
and
priorities.
It
also
increases
the
accountability
of
SEWA’s
leaders
and
organisers,
to
their
members.
The Eleven Questions of SEWA :
Have more members obtained more employment ?
Has their income increased ?
Have they obtained food and nutrition ?
Has their health been safeguarded ?
Have they obtained child-care?
Have they obtained or improved their housing ?
Have their assets increased ? (e.g. their own savings,
land, house, work-space, tools or work, licenses,
identity cards, cattled and share in cooperatives;
and all in their own name.
Have the worker’s organisational strength
increased ?
Has worker’s leadership increased ?
Have they become self-reliant both collectively
and individually ?
Have they become literate?
Questions 1 to 7 are linked to the goal of full employment while 8 to 11 are those concerned with SEWA’s goal of self reliance. However each of these are interconnected to each other. In 1998 "aagewan’s" suggested including education in the broadest sense as the eleventh question to be addressed by SEWA. We have included this as part of the member’s yardstick
