Women's Economic Empowerment

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Inadequate infrastructure – particularly related to clean water and toilets – and the cost of accessing these takes a heavy toll...

Preparing a Platform

• March 13, 2014

Taking it to the ILC 2014 The WIEGO Network, Partners and informal workers representatives from around the world attended the International...

Waste & Gender: Rethinking Relations for Empowerment

Little research exists about gender relations and divisions among waste pickers. A collaborative in Latin America has shed light on the multiple...

Voice & Leadership

Strengthening the Voice and Leadership of Informal Women Workers Around Social Policy Issues This project built a sustained link between...

Street Vendors

Fair Trade

“Building Capacity for Change: Developing Women’s Leadership and Business Skills” describes an action-research project (2012-15)...

Securing Economic Rights for Informal Women Workers

Strengthening the organizing and leadership capacity of informal women workers fosters economic self-reliance and increases women’s...

Gumutindo: Growing Toward a New Gender Balance

Halfway up Mount Elgon, a bumpy hour’s drive from the busy centre of Mbale in eastern Uganda, the women meeting at the Konokoy Organic Coffee...

Maasai Women Bead Better Products, Better Lives

by Leslie Vryenhoek

Bega kwa Bega: Shoulder to Shoulder Achieving their Goals

In a Nairobi slum, the women of  Bega kwa Bega are checking linens—table runners, decorative cushion covers and an ingenious pan carrier—and...