The South Asia Program mobilizes resources for the following:

• Capacity building support for small and emerging women-led groups
• Regional peer-to-peer exchanges between grassroots women activists, farmers, Indigenous women
• Rights-based and skill building trainings to support women's leadership, legal awareness and promote sustainable agriculture and environmental protection
• Advocacy and movement building campaigns ,where women's leadership and participation is front and center

Goals:

1. Build a cadre of empowered and resourced grassroots women leaders, who act as community resource agents and advocates for gender equality in areas related to food production, environmental protection, climate action and rights of women as farmers and access to control over resources
2. Improve food security, localize economy and preserve the environment
3. Build political will by supporting women's leadership and decision-making in local, national and international policymaking processes