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"Fair Play for Street Vendors"
Ela Bhatt
NEW Publications:
Chant

International Handbook on Gender and Poverty. Contains a chapter by Marty Chen, International Coordinator of WIEGO, entitled “Informality, Poverty, and Gender: Evidence from the Global South”. 
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Publication on Wastepickers in India
Livelihoods with Dignity, by Alliance of Indian Wastepickers
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Ela Bhatt
May 13, 2010 - Ela Bhatt of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) receives Japan's Niwano Peace Prize.


International Domestic Workers'
Platform of Demands
Platform of Demands
available in English, Spanish, French


Domestic Workers in Latin America: Statistics for New Policies, Victor Tokman, 2010. (pdf)

Warwick Junction:
Cleanup Campaign a Success!
Follow news stories on impact of World Cup in South Africa and the Commonwealth Games in India on the Working Poor
WIEGO Statistics Group participates in International Conference held in Hanoi, Vietnam
Database on Organization and Representation (WORD)

SEWA video on Waste pickers

Watch Video:
SEWA's Waste picker Members and Climate Change

Women in the Shadows
New publication by the SÜDWIND Institute for Economics and Ecumenism and by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria:

"Women working in the shadows –
The informal economy and export processing zones"
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Homebased Workers:
"Do Economic Reforms InfluenceHome-Based Work? Evidence from India"
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Refusing to be Cast Aside:
Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

Edited by Melanie Samson

Vietnamese Vendors
Worker with Scarf
Kenyan Fish Vendor

How is WIEGO Structured and Governed?

Membership

Governance

Staff

Institutional and Financial

02 September, 2010


Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. It does so by highlighting the size, composition, characteristics, and contribution of the informal economy through improved statistics and research; by helping to strengthen member-based organizations informal workers; and by promoting policy dialogues and processes that include representatives of informal worker organizations. The common motivation for those who join the network is the relative lack of recognition, understanding, and support for the working poor in the informal economy, especially women, by policy makers, economic planners, and the international development community.

The Members and Associates of the WIEGO network, including the members of its Steering Committee and Advisory Committees, are drawn from its three constituencies:

  • member-based organizations of informal workers;
  • research, statistical, and academic institutions; and
  • international development agencies (non-governmental and inter-governmental).

WIEGO Worldwide in 2009 - world map
WIEGO Worldwide
Map of WIEGO people, programmes and partners in 2009 from all over the world.
(click on the map for more details)


Micro-sites

WIEGO GA panelists
WIEGO's 2010 General Assembly, Belo Horizonte

India Law Project ParticipantsIndia Law Project Website
WIEGO is coordinating an international project on law and the informal economy. India has been selected for carrying out a pilot study in the first year of the project.

Porter carrying heavy load

 

WIEGO Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) for Informal Workers


Informal Economy in the News


Domestic Workers photo by Elizabeth Rappaport
photo: Elizabeth Rappaport

U.S.
Victory for Domestic Workers!
At long last, New York took a giant step toward becoming the first state in the nation to pass a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. (Ms. Foundation, June 2, 2010)


Vietnam
Home business needs support - coverage on International Conference held in Hanoi to address the informal sector and policies. (Vietnam News, May 7, 2010)


South Africa
Impact of the World Cup 2010 on the Working Poor
Decent Work Still a Dream for South Africa's Domestic Workers, Davison Makanga, IPS


India
Impact of the Commonwealth Games 2010
on the Working Poor


US

Street Vendors Saved Times Square

T-Shirt Vendor Takes On New Persona: Reluctant Hero of Times Square, Michael Schmidt, New York Times

Lance Orton, Times Square Car Bomb Hero: 'See Something, Say Something', Huffington Post


Worldwide

Impact of the Global Recession on the Working Poor in the Informal Economy

“More and more workers are competing for their sliver of a shrinking informal economy pie”


 

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