Videos

  • Jaagi Aas Kapaas Mein

    The video, produced as part of a UNDP-Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) project on information technology for sustainable agriculture in Punjab highlights sustainable agricultural practices such as proper use of fertilizers and insecticides that can enable higher productivity of crops in the region.

  • Milking Profits: Swaayam Ksheer Dairy Company Benefits Women in UP

    The video shows how the Swaayam Ksheer Dairy producer company, set up as part of the partnership, has helped women like Munni Devi, who are now equity shareholders of the company, increase their profits three-fold from INR 800 to 2,500 per month. The dairy company supplies milk directly to the government milk grid, and in doing so, has also been instrumental in eliminating the role of middlemen.

  • My Sugar School

    The prosperous sugar belt of Western Maharashtra requires sugarcane cutters by lakhs. As a result, there is heavy migration to this area. Children of these migrants are most affected as they have to change their home and forego their education. The Government and some NGOs are providing education to them. The film explores their efforts through the eyes of one such student ‘Pushpa’ who dreams of becoming a pilot.

  • One Day on Earth (11.11.11)

    This video shot on 11.11.11 as part of the global One Day on Earth project traces the journey of Anarkali from a homemaker to the first ever woman ward member elected from her village in Uttar Pradesh. Like Anarkali, many women have become politically empowered as a result of UNDP-IKEA Foundation partnership that has reached out to 50,000 women across 500 villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

  • Our World of Empowerment

    Strengthening Women's Social, Economic and Political Empowerment

  • Rebeca Grynspan Visits SWAAYAM: A Breakthrough Women’s Empowerment Initiative

    Rebeca Grynspan, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator visited Uttar Pradesh to witness the work of Swaayam, a UNDP women’s empowerment initiative supported by the IKEA Foundation. MS. Grynspan inaugurated the Swaayam marketplace, a unique buyer-seller meet aimed at building market bridges for women producers by bringing them in direct contact with potential buyers. On display were pappadums, incense sticks, handicrafts, carpets and dairy products made by a range of women producer companies supported by the partnership. In Jaunpur district, the Associate Administrator inaugurated a bulk milk chilling unit to be run by the Swaayam Ksheer Producer Company, a dairy enterprise of 12,000 women producers and participated in a special village council (Gram Sabha) meeting on women’s issues.

  • Rehana: A Quest For Freedom

    This film is about aspirations and freedom. It presents the life and work of Rehana Adib who works with women from marginalized communities in Muzzafarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. As a woman from a minority community, a mother of six, a challenger of traditions, and a crusader for social change – the film tries to understand the genesis of the emergence of a leader.

  • Swaayam - A Journey to Empowerment

    The film, produced by UNDP India, illustrates how the UNDP-IKEA Foundation partnership ‘Swayaam’ is helping women across eastern Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, break free from age-old restrictions and customs and become agents of change. The partnership, which began in 2009, has empowered 50,000 women to enhance incomes and effectively participate in and contribute to decision-making in domestic and public spheres. It is now being scaled up to reach out to 2.2 million women and their families, taking this integrated women’s empowerment model to four more states.

  • Swaayam - The Journey Has Just Begun

    The film, produced by UNDP India, illustrates how the UNDP-IKEA Foundation partnership ‘Swayaam’ is helping women across eastern Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, break free from age-old restrictions and customs and become agents of change. The partnership, which began in 2009, has empowered 50,000 women to enhance incomes and effectively participate in and contribute to decision-making in domestic and public spheres. It is now being scaled up to reach out to 2.2 million women and their families, taking this integrated women’s empowerment model to four more states.

  • Teaching Craft as a Means of Earning a Livelihood

    Thirty-eight-year-old Parvati, a master trainer of a crafts collective in Arjunpur Pathak village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is today teaching sewing and weaving to other women in her village. The extra income generated has been possible through UNDP’s partnership with the IKEA Foundation, Swaayam, which has been training rural women in economic activities such as incense, pappadum production and carpet weaving.