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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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