African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could overcome some of the challenges they are facing and improve their livelihoods.
Ela Bhatt is Founder of SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association) and the Founding Chair of WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing)
For many of us, the word “informal employment” conjures up images of street vendors, rickshaw drivers, or casual laborers in agriculture—all images linked to the developing world and the hard edges of subsistence in low-income economies.
There is a growing consensus in the international community that economic growth needs to be inclusive: that it needs to be broad-based and create productive employment opportunities for the majority of the working-age population. But there is less consensus about what should be done about the informal economy.
Preguntas y respuestas con Chris Bonner, Directora del Programa de Organización y Representación de WIEGO
P: ¿Podría decirnos cuál es su papel como Directora del Programa de Organización y Representación de WIEGO, y cuál es su enfoque para organizar a los trabajadores en la economía informal?
Q&A with Chris Bonner WIEGO’s Director of Organization and
Representation Programme
Q: Could you briefly tell us about your role as WIEGO's Organization and Representation Programme Director and your approach to organizing informal workers?
