NENterprise – Chizami Weaves works with around 600 weavers from Chizami and 14 units (towns/villages) in Phek district and Kohima Town. The project aim to promote the textile weaving tradition of Naga-women, ensure a sustainable source of income for the women weavers who are also farmers, and to enhance weavers’ economic, social and cultural rights of women.…
Funded by BFDW and Cattani Fund and supported by Self Employed Women Association (SEWA), the project focuses on organising and strengthening unorganised women workers’ leadership and their organisation towards securing their rights and entitlements. Around 3000 women unorganised workers in the informal sector (farm producers, home based workers and vendors) from Phek, Kohima and Dimapur districts are mobilized and…
Funded by Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and facilitated by North East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity (NESFAS) Meghalaya, the project is implemented in 28 villages under Noklak and Phek districts of Nagaland. The goal of the project is to enhance indigenous food systems (IFS) to significantly contribute to improved nutrition, food security and sustainable livelihoods of North East Indian indigenous communities…
Funded by Global Fund for Women (GFW) and facilitated by CREA, the project aim to enhance the capacity of young women activist/s in NEN and in the community in Phek district of Nagaland. It seeks to strengthen and deepen the work of the organisations’ in which these leaders are located to enable and take ownership of this kind of transformative…
Funded by Swallows through the Millet Network of India (MINI), the project aims to work towards recognition of millets as an integral part of the farming system, dietary and policy landscape of India; to promote millet farming and strengthen millet growing communities in Phek district of Nagaland. In 2018, NEN adopted 2 villages, Akhegwo and Meluri for intensive intervention.
Funded by Bread for the World (BFTW) and MISERIOR Germany, the project is implemented in the states of Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland since April 2016 and ending on 31stMarch 2019. The objective of the project is to enhance the capacities of women to participate in local governance (formal and informal) and to engage with state agencies for stronger articulation of…
Funded by Ford Foundation, the project has beenimplemented since 1st January 2019 and ending on 31st December, 2022.NEN’s long term goal is economic empowerment of rural women in north east India alongside upholding of their social and cultural rights, through sustainable livelihoods linked to preservation of their traditional practices of weaving, cultivation and collective work culture. Saneki Weaves works…
Funded by University of Edinburgh, the project has been implemented in Assam since 1st May, 2018 and ending on 31st April 2020. The project’s objective is to generate evidence to advance the rights and protection mechanism that must be planned and provided for low-income urban migrants.
Funded by Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI), the project has been implemented in Assam and Meghalaya since 1st January 2018 and ending on 31st December 2020. The project aims to reduced incidence of domestic violence by 30% in select 5 districts of Assam and Meghalaya by the end of 3rd year by strengthening community response, ensuring state accountability…
Funded by Bread for the World (BFTW) and MISEREOR Germany, the project has been implemented in the states of Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland since April 2016 and ending on 31stMarch 2019. The objective of the project is to enhance the capacities of women to participate in local governance (formal and informal) and to engage with state agencies for stronger articulation…