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Sahana Social Development Alliance (SSDA) has been implementing a range of programmes and initiatives to support and empower home-based workers, women, and girls across the Galle and Matara Districts. Over the past period, SSDA has worked with approximately 453 home-based workers, responding to their diverse economic and social needs and creating opportunities for women to strengthen their livelihoods and improve their household income.
Through these initiatives, SSDA has focused on supporting women who wish to start or strengthen income-generating activities from their homes by providing access to finance, skills development, awareness, and community-level support.
Home-based workers are suffering due to high oil prices, shortage of gas and increased electricity bills. Due to the war situation in the Middle East, people have to spend time in long queues for fuel. Shortage of fuel and gas have led to home-based workers having to limit their productions.
It is not easy to increase the prices of products to keep pace with the fuel price increase. Customers are not ready to buy products for higher prices. INDECOS is ready to provide training to select home-based workers around how they can change their methodology to use minimum fuel, gas or electricity.
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HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) recently organised an engaging regional webinar titled ‘Access to Markets’ on 29 April 2025, bringing together affiliate organisations from all across South Asia to discuss one of the most pressing challenges faced by home-based workers (HBWs): access to markets. Moderated by Ms. Monica Raina, the session was a reflection on some of the biggest obstacles and opportunities under this topic.
The terms ‘invisible’ or ‘hidden’ are often used when referring to women homeworkers in garment and footwear supply chains. Their work is often undervalued and remains unseen by the retailers and brands they produce for. Because of the hidden nature of their work, they are vulnerable. And face issues like, unfair pay, irregular work, poor working conditions, lack of worker rights, human rights abuse, violence and harassment by contractors, and occupational health and safety risks.
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