Women's Economic Empowerment

Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment

This multi-country project helped workers build and strengthen networks nationally and internationally. By networking globally, working poor...

UN Secretary General High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment

This year long initiative (March 2016-17) brought together leaders from civil society and the private and public sectors to define an actionable...

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Most women informal workers face triple barriers to economic empowerment:

Delhi’s Free Public Transportation for Women Could be an Economic Game-changer for the Poorest

The recent proposal by the Delhi government to make public transportation free for women has been hailed as a way to improve women’s safety...

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...

Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real

• May 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019
• Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF) affiliates from across Africa gathered in May at this workshop, aimed at strengthening worker...

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...

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...

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...

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...