The Udaiti Foundation aims to drastically improve women’s empowerment in India. Women’s empowerment is both a moral imperative and a prerequisite for India’s social and economic progress. However, in 2021, India dropped 28 places in the Global Gender Gap Index, and now ranks 140 out of 156. The barriers to women’s empowerment, such as limited economic opportunities, lack of agency and decision-making power, and fundamental infrastructure (e.g. safety, mobility) are complex and interlinked, and require a holistic approach to the problem.

To accelerate women’s empowerment in India, Udaiti will initially focus on three key areas:

• Women in the workforce
• Women’s entrepreneurship
• Sexual harassment at the workplace

Our goals are:

• Employment: doubling the female labor force participation rate and increasing female-owned enterprises from 20% to 30% in the next 15 years
• Safety: Women are, and feel safe, at work, and in public places
• Agency: Increasing women’s decision-making power at work, and in the community

Udaiti aims to be the leading organisation working on women’s empowerment in the country. This will require taking a foundation approach and utilizing a variety of levers, such as building political salience, engaging with the private sector, innovating and using markets, providing seed funding and shaping supply, and building the ecosystem in this area.

Udaiti Foundation Deck (External) - Nov 2022.pptx.pdf

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Interested in learning more about the org? Write to us at [email protected] with the subject ‘The Udaiti Foundation’