Dr. Rajvi Joshipura is a part of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), where she works with the informal worker women and their communities on interventions that link livelihoods, childcare, and community health as pathways to breaking the cycle of poverty. “Lack of opportunity” is also a form of poverty – with that belief, she focuses on ensuring that health and childcare never become a hinderance towards a woman’s progress. Trained as a medical doctor with specialization in healthcare analytics and strategic management, she brings an evidence-informed and systems perspective to understanding how informality affects household security and children’s wellbeing. At SEWA, she has worked closely with community-managed childcare centres for women workers, supporting early childhood care, nutrition, health monitoring, and school readiness as foundational steps toward formalisation. Her work focuses on strengthening children and community health and development alongside their mothers’ health, income stability, and access to social protection. She has contributed to programmes implemented with partners that expand preventive healthcare and social services for informal worker families. She has also supported the design of micro-insurance and social protection mechanisms that help households manage shocks and reduce reliance on children’s labour. Through field engagement and coordination, Dr. Joshipura works to translate grassroots experience into practical, scalable formalisation pathways that are inclusive of women and protective of children. Her work reflects SEWA’s integrated approach to formalisation that safeguards childhoods while strengthening women’s livelihoods and collective agency