Women's Economic Empowerment

Living on the Precipice of Extreme Poverty: How Financial Downturns Devastate the Working Poor

The global economic crisis that rocked the world in 2008 led to increased financial hardship for informal workers, most of whom already lived...

Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real

• May 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019
• Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF) affiliates from across Africa gathered in May at this workshop, aimed at strengthening worker...

Women Informal Workers Challenge Invisibility in Dakar

In Dakar, Senegal, women continue to face economic and social inequities — from illiteracy to poverty to gender discrimination — but it’s...

Cities are undermining the potential of universal cash grants to support women’s economic empowerment and reduce poverty

Ninety-two per cent of women’s employment in the developing world is in the informal economy, and as urbanization proceeds an increasing...

How to Hit Women’s Economic Empowerment Targets: First ensure women can recognize their own dignity and self worth

Valdete Roza is a Brazilian waste picker and leader in her cooperative who is pioneering gender discussions with her colleagues across her...

Sisterhood: How Solidarity Led Indian Women to Take on Gender Discrimination

Nazma is home-based worker who has often found herself at the mercy of the sub-contractors who employ her. But now she has joined forces...

Eye Witness: WIEGO’s Brazilian Waste Expert Dispatches from India

WIEGO’s Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP) on Law and Informality brought global experts to Ahmedabad, India, to stay two nights in the homes...

Q&A: WIEGO’s New Urban Policies Director Talks Migration, 21st-century Cities and What Inspires Her Research

This week, we sit down with WIEGO’s new Urban Policies Programme Director, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, to learn more about her background and...

Photo Essay: Inside Efforts to Strengthen Leadership among Women Waste Pickers

WIEGO’s Organizing and Representation Programme and Urban Policies Programme works with waste picker organizations in South Africa and Brazil...