About WIEGO: Defining Features*
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The defining features of the WIEGO network include
the following:
- It focuses on the concrete reality of the working poor, especially
women, in the informal economy and seeks to integrate an informed
understanding of this concrete reality into mainstream development
thinking, policies, and institutions.
- It draws on the distinct expertise of its three constituencies
and builds effective alliances between them:
- membership-based organizations of informal workers;
- research, statistical, and academic institutions; and
- development agencies (non-governmental and inter-governmental).
- It promotes and effectively combines the ‘value added’
of its three constituencies:
- the grounded understanding, collective strength, and moral
authority of membership-based organizations of informal workers;
- the rigorous findings and informed analysis of the research
and statistical institutions; and
- the leverage and influence of informed policy makers.
- It forges South-South and North-South linkages to allow individuals
and institutions across developing countries and between developing
and developed countries to exchange experience and to develop
a common perspective on key issues relating to the informal economy;
and b) to promote effective policy advocacy at all levels: national,
regional, and international.
- It has developed programme initiatives and technical expertise
on a range of issues that address the expressed needs and concerns
of informal workers.
- It seeks to strengthen, network, and build the policy analysis
capacity of member-based organizations of informal workers through
all of its activities.
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