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Impact Stories

An impact story is a narrative learning tool that helps us understand how WIEGO’s work contributed to a change related to the informal economy. We base these stories in part on interviews with participants, and draw lessons from those stories to inform our work.

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  • Celebrating success at the ILC Impact Story

    “We moved mountains”: 7 winning strategies that influenced the ILC agenda

    For 25 years, WIEGO and its allies have helped informal workers voice their issues at the International Labour Conference (ILC)—which influenced...

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    Home-based workers in Bulgaria: Using the ILO Reporting Mechanism to Work

    In Bulgaria, the Trade Union of Self-employed and Informal Workers (UNITY) has made significant gains advocating for homeworkers’ labour...

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    Ghana Health Policy Dialogue

    Impact: Marginalized Workers Gain Healthcare Access A Health Policy Dialogue, facilitated by WIEGO in Accra in 2012, resulted in over 1,000 ...

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    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...

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    Maasai Women Bead Better Products, Better Lives

    by Leslie Vryenhoek

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    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...

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    Ngalo: Kampala Women’s Group Sews—and Reaps Big Rewards

    Agnes Mugabi holds Ngalo’s official Certificate of RegistrationLike all groups involved in the WIEGO-led Leadership & Business...

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    In Jinja, Women Come Together to Learn and to Earn

    Kyebajja Tobona Women’s Group, affiliated to Nurturing Uganda, a member of UGAFAT This is one in a series of WIEGO Network impact stories. View...

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    Success for the Women of Machakos Cooperative Union

    For a group of women who weave baskets in Machakos, Kenya, coming together to work—and coming to perceive their basket weaving as a business—has...

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    Confidence Soars for Nurturing Uganda’s Women

    An alliance between Nurturing Uganda, an NGO in the rural area of Jinja, the Ugandan Association for Alternative Trade (UGAFAT), and WIEGO...

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