WIEGO Global Markets Programme
Research Partners and Collaborations
1. Garment Sector: Comparative Global Value Chains (with support
from IDRC, the Ford Foundation, and the World Bank)
Research Partners –
Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen
Community Agency for Social Enquiry, South Africa
Duke University, USA
Fair Labour Institute, USA
Homenet Philippines, Philippines
Homenet Thailand, Thailand
IDS, Sussex, UK
IDS, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Institut national de statistique et d'economie appliquee, Morocco
Maquila Solidarity Network, Canada and Central America
NCAER, India
North-South Institute, Canada
Self Employed Women’s Association, India
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
UNCTAD, Geneva
Research Focus -
All of these projects seek to map out the global value chains in
the garment sector in which women workers/producers are involved,
with a special focus on the impact of the Multi-Fiber Agreement
(MFA). The main research questions are a) what will be the likely
impact of the phasing out of the MFA on different groups of women
workers/producers in these chains and b) whether points along the
chain can be identified at which positive interventions on behalf
of such women can be made.
2. Garments Sector: Global Value Chain Analysis Manual (with support
from the Rockefeller Foundation)
Research Partners –
HomeNet South East Asia
Institute of Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex , UK
Research Focus –
This methodology manual was developed to help researchers conduct
value chain analysis in the garments sector in ways that include
home-based workers, both industrial outworkers and own account producers.
Several training workshops on the use of the manual have been carried
out and at least one is being planned [in Southeast Asia].
3. Food Processing and Non-Timber Forest Products (with support
from the Commonwealth Secretariat and the IDRC)
Research Partners –
African Centre for Gender and Development (UNECA), Ethiopia
African Women's Development Fund, Ghana
ASSEMA, Brazil
CANDELA, Peru
Commonwealth Secretariat
Equator Initiative, UNDP
Herencia, Bolivia
Honey Care Africa, Nairobi
ICIPE, Nairobi
Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), Sri Lanka
Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), Zimbabwe
Ministry of the Environment, Brazil
Movimento Inter-estadual de Quebradeiras de Coco Babasu, Brazil
Organization of Women for Development, Brazil
Research Focus –
All of these projects seek to map out the global value chains in
the food processing and non-timber forest product sectors in which
women are involved. The main research questions are: (a) how have
increased imports of foodstuffs and increased large-scale domestic
processing of foodstuffs by multi-national corporations (or their
affiliates) in developing countries affected labour patterns; and
(b) to what extent can women be better integrated into global value
chains on terms more favorable to themselves?
4. Best Practices in Trade Policy in Support of Informal Women
Workers/Producers (with support from the Commonwealth Secretariat)
Research Partners –
IDS, Sussex, UK + University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
IIED, London, UK + University of Mozambique, Mozambique
Kuapa Kokoo Cocoa Farmers Cooperative + Ghana/ Day Chocolate
Company, UK
NCAER, New Delhi
Women in Business Development Inc., Samoa
IDS Sussex, UK and BIDS, Bangladesh
Research Question –
The main question asked in this research is whether positive government
policies at the national level can assist informal women producers
and workers to take advantage of new economic opportunities arising
from trade liberalization.
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