The
economic organisations described above are all primary organisations,
serving the self-employed women directly. However, organising
at the primary or grass roots level is necessary, but not enough.
Access to markets, to training, to technical inputs and to policy
making, requires organisations which can deal at state, national
and international levels. The primary purpose of these organisations
is to link the self employed women, through their primary organisations,
to the larger economic structures; and in doing so, to mainstream
them into the economy.
These federations
are of different types, with different purposes, depending on
the need of the primary organisations. Some serve a specific type
of need such as housing, while others serve a multiplicity of
needs. However, the main aim of all the federations is to federations
is to mainstream the self-employed women.
