Since the 2008-2009 Global Economic Crisis, WIEGO has periodically conducted multi-site studies to reflect grounded realities of domestic work, home-based work, street and market trade, and waste recycling. This action research aims to understand pathways of impact and sources of harm but also support and assess how these change over time. This work is conducted alongside worker organizations and aims to support advocacy efforts both in cities and globally.
Global Research
What is WIEGO's Work on Global Research?WIEGO’s Global Research involves multi-sector and multi-country data collection. Global Research serves to highlight the pathways of impact on workers’ livelihoods, as well as leverage spaces for local to global advocacy.
WIEGO's Approach to ResearchWIEGO develops research, statistics and policy analysis to inform action led by women workers and their organizations to fight for a more just world of work.
Our research processes value knowledge co-production as a collaborative approach that generates robust data with and for membership-based organizations. The intention is to strengthen the capacity of worker organizations to identify and pursue advocacy pathways. Key principles of WIEGO’s approach include recognizing different forms of knowledge, building trust with membership-based organizations, maintaining continuous communication, feedback and validation with worker leaders, and scanning the policy terrain to disseminate research.
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Discover Our Themes
The following themes represent areas of strategic focus for WIEGO.