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Eliminating Legal Barriers from the Perspective of the Informal Economy
This document was one of the five policy briefs prepared by the WIEGO Network for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic...
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Gender and Waste Project September 12, 2019
Photo Essay: Inside Efforts to Strengthen Leadership among Women Waste Pickers
WIEGO’s Organizing and Representation Programme and Urban Policies Programme works with waste picker organizations in South Africa and Brazil...
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Building Collective Power August 16, 2019
Women Informal Workers Challenge Invisibility in Dakar
In Dakar, Senegal, women continue to face economic and social inequities — from illiteracy to poverty to gender discrimination — but it’s...
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Links with Economic Growth/Crisis August 15, 2019
Living on the Precipice of Extreme Poverty: How Financial Downturns Devastate the Working Poor
The global economic crisis that rocked the world in 2008 led to increased financial hardship for informal workers, most of whom already lived...
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Access to Public Space August 15, 2019
For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings
Inadequate infrastructure – particularly related to clean water and toilets – and the cost of accessing these takes a heavy toll...
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Global Advocacy and Negotiations August 15, 2019
Cities are undermining the potential of universal cash grants to support women’s economic empowerment and reduce poverty
Ninety-two per cent of women’s employment in the developing world is in the informal economy, and as urbanization proceeds an increasing...
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Gender and Waste Project August 15, 2019
How to Hit Women’s Economic Empowerment Targets: First ensure women can recognize their own dignity and self worth
Valdete Roza is a Brazilian waste picker and leader in her cooperative who is pioneering gender discussions with her colleagues across her...
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Building Collective Power August 15, 2019
Sisterhood: How Solidarity Led Indian Women to Take on Gender Discrimination
Nazma is home-based worker who has often found herself at the mercy of the sub-contractors who employ her. But now she has joined forces...
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Exposure Dialogues August 15, 2019
Eye Witness: WIEGO’s Brazilian Waste Expert Dispatches from India
WIEGO’s Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP) on Law and Informality brought global experts to Ahmedabad, India, to stay two nights in the homes...
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Livelihoods August 13, 2019
Q&A: WIEGO’s New Urban Policies Director Talks Migration, 21st-century Cities and What Inspires Her Research
This week, we sit down with WIEGO’s new Urban Policies Programme Director, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, to learn more about her background and...
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Women's Economic Empowerment

All posts in Women's Economic Empowerment

Eliminating Legal Barriers from the Perspective of the Informal Economy

Photo Essay: Inside Efforts to Strengthen Leadership among Women Waste Pickers

Women Informal Workers Challenge Invisibility in Dakar

Living on the Precipice of Extreme Poverty: How Financial Downturns Devastate the Working Poor

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Cities are undermining the potential of universal cash grants to support women’s economic empowerment and reduce poverty

How to Hit Women’s Economic Empowerment Targets: First ensure women can recognize their own dignity and self worth

Sisterhood: How Solidarity Led Indian Women to Take on Gender Discrimination

Eye Witness: WIEGO’s Brazilian Waste Expert Dispatches from India

Q&A: WIEGO’s New Urban Policies Director Talks Migration, 21st-century Cities and What Inspires Her Research