Hewlett Foundation's Ruth Levine shares how WIEGO changed her perception In a Devex online interview, Ruth Levine, outgoing program director of the Global Development and Population programme at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, explained how WIEGO has helped her understand “how fundamental to sustained social change it is to support the capacity of self-led organizations.”
In an interview with Catherine Cheney, Levine referred to WIEGO’s work with informal workers and said this:
“So these are street vendors, waste pickers, and domestic workers. WIEGO helps them organize and advocate within its own cities and countries and even in the halls of the United Nations and the International Labor Organization for its rights. And in two decades or more working in international development, I had literally never been exposed to groups like that. It and other grantees really opened a window for me of how important it is to support groups who are comprised of people who are fighting and working on behalf of themselves and their children”