At SEWA, we call this “Just Transition” –transition that generates green livelihoods, which are decent and dignified for the poor informal sector workers. Transition that is led by the women. The emphasis on just transition will help address three defining challenges of the twenty-first century – decent work, poverty eradication, and environmental sustainability.

SEWA has set-up a Green Transition Centre which works on understanding the issues faced by the poor informal sector workers in their lives and livelihood and the changes that they have been making to their lifestyle to adapt to the climate shocks. We at SEWA believe that there is opportunity in any adversity. The Centre works on various initiatives like increasing awareness about the climate shocks and its effect on the members, understanding the adaptation and mitigation measures taken by the members, scaling up the adaptation and mitigation initiatives, enabling financial linkages and policy interventions.