WIEGO: Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing

About WIEGO: Who We Are

WIEGO Members

About WIEGO Membership

Over the past eight years since WIEGO was first established, the network has extended significantly to all regions of the world. In October 2005, the WIEGO Steering Committee ratified a Constitution that calls for putting in place a transparent and responsive structure with Members and Associates. The purpose of the approved structure is to provide greater accountability and yet to retain flexibility to respond to and seize opportunities as they arise. According to the WIEGO Constitution, both individuals and membership-based organizations can be invited to become Members of WIEGO.

The criteria for Membership are:

having served on the Steering Committee of WIEGO or one of the Advisory Committees of the five WIEGO programs;
having collaborated with WIEGO in some activity (research project, policy dialogue, workshop or conference); OR
having participated in two or more meetings of WIEGO.

Members will be invited to the WIEGO General Assembly (to be held every two years), at which they will have the opportunity to a) provide feed-back on WIEGO’s programs, progress, and plans and b) nominate representatives from their particular constituency (as above) to the Nomination and Management Sub-Committees of WIEGO’s Steering Committee. The next General Assembly, at which our new structure will be officially launched, will be held in Durban, South Africa from April 21-25 2006.

WIEGO Individual Members

The following individuals have accepted WIEGO membership. Please note that organizational affiliation is listed for identification purposes only:

Stephanie Barrientos, IDS Sussex
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
Srilatha Batliwala, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Grace Bediako, Ghana Statistitical Service
Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University
Elaine Bernard, Harvard Trade Union Program
Jan Bremen, University of Amsterdam
Debbie Budlender, CASE
Françoise Carre, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Nancy Chau, Cornell University
Sarah Cook, IDS Sussex
Tim Costello, Global Labor Strategies
Donna Doane, Independent Consultant
Diane Elson, Levy Institute/ University of Essex
Simel Esim ILO Beirut
Guadalupe Espinosa, UNIFEM (retired)
Lourdes Ferran, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Heather Gibb, The North/South Institute
Jennifer Gordon, Fordham Law School
Carol Grodzins, Askoka
Caren Grown, Levy Institute
Margarita Guererro, United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific
Noeleen Heyzer, UNIFEM
Carole Houlihan, Independent Consultant
Christian Jacquier, ILO
Naila Kabeer, IDS Sussex
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Paula Kantor, University of East Anglia
Rudith King, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Lucita Lazo, Independent Consultant
Rakawin Leechanavaniphan, ILO
Lin Lean Lim, ILO
Jacqui MacDonald, Independent Consultant
Wanzusi Robert Matukhu, Uganda Workers Education Association
Santosh Mehrotra, UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok
Nidhi Mirani, University of California San Diego
Rodrigo Negrete, INEGI
Maxine Olson, UNDP India
Karl Osner, Association for the Promotion of the North-South Dialogue
Karin Pape, Global Labour Institute
Mercedes Pedrero, CRIM-UNAM
Xizhe Peng, Fudan University
Fred Pietersen, Ethekweni Municipality,Economic Development Department
Uma Rani, Gujarat Institute of Development Studies
Carol Richards, Independent Consultant
Kamala Sankaran, University of Delhi
Hubert Schmitz, IDS Sussex
Jennefer Sebstad, Independent Consultant
Alakh Sharma, Insitute for Social Studies Trust (ISST)
Andrea Singh, ILO (retired)
Navsharan Singh, IDRC
Shalini Sinha, WIRES
Caroline Skinner, University of KwaZulu Natal
Nancy Spence, UNICEF
Dave Spooner, IFWEA
Kathy Sreedhar,UU Holdeen India Program
Smita Srinivas, Harvard University
Ratna Sudarshan, Insitute for Social Studies Trust (ISST)
Jeemol Unni, National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector
Maria Elena Valenzuela, CEDEM
Imraan Valodia, University of KwaZulu Natal
Anneke van Luijken, IRENE
Rosa Irene Vera Fernandez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
Leah Vosko, Alliance on Contingent Work/ York University
Nora Wintour, PSI
Yu Yao, Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Studies
Gisele Yasmeen, Elections Canada