Women's Economic Empowerment

The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

Sustainability after COVID-19: Building gender equality into the response

• May 26, 2020
• Online

9:00 am EDT (GMT-4) – 10:30 a.m. WIEGO Waste Specialist Dr. Sonia M. Dias participated in a Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) webinar...

Continuing gender stereotypes or signs of change: Occupational pattern of women workers

Small World, Big Goals: A Home-Based Garment Worker in Delhi

From her Delhi home, Farida-ben embroiders garments for foreign retailers. Denied an education and other options, she has done this work...

Gaining Ground: The Cooperative Life of a Smallholder in Uganda

With lives and livelihoods governed by so many forces beyond their control, women coffee producers like Jenipher Wettaka know it takes more...

Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights

From the UN Women website:”Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights, UN Women’s flagship report,...

FLOW Additional Funding Report

This report captures the results achieved by 28 projects operating under FLOW, that received additional funding during 2013-14. The results...

Macroeconomic policy and women’s economic empowerment

This discussion paper is the result of a collaboration initiated in consultation with several members of the United Nations Secretary-General’s...

Eliminating Legal Barriers from the Perspective of the Informal Economy

This document was one of the five policy briefs prepared by the WIEGO Network for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic...

Introduction & Training Module 1: Understanding Gender and Employment Relations

This is the first in a series of seven training modules titled Developing Leadership and Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair...