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A Q&A with Elaine Jones during World Fair Trade Week Elaine Jones, Director of WIEGO’s Global Trade Programme, joins us this week from the World Fair Trade Week being held in Milan, Italy. The weeklong event features the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) Conference, a Fair Trade International...
Women Organizing for Fair Trade Trading Our Way Up - The story of a women's economic empowerment project in fair trade An action research project examined the experiences of women producers in collective enterprises in seven countries between 2009–2011. The study highlighted the economic and social...
Kyebajja Tobona Women’s Group, affiliated to Nurturing Uganda, a member of UGAFAT This is one in a series of WIEGO Network impact stories. View all impact stories . Please continue–we are here, and we are willing to learn - by Brenda Leifso In December 2013, Elaine Jones, Director of the Global...
WIEGO seeks to promote a better understanding of how the working poor in the informal economy are inserted into the global economy, and with what consequences; and to identify strategies to promote fair trade for informal producers who want to export their goods and ethical trade for informal wage...
Women's Collective Action (WCA) Webinar No. 5 Summary
African smallholder farmers fought for the right to organize, and in the 1950s, were finally allowed to promote and register cooperatives for cash crops such as coffee. The Machakos Co-operative Union Ltd. (MCU) was established in the 1960s in Kenya. Its original aim was to market coffee for...
Presented by WIEGO's Director of Global Trade at a policy conference hosted by SEWA and UNIFEM, “Women, Work, and Poverty,” to highlight the situation of home-based workers in South Asia.
The last in a series of seven training modules titled Developing Leadership and Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair Trade . ( view complete list in the series ) This module focuses on innovation and production techniques to help improve sales, and has four main objectives: To create...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.