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Partnering with WIEGO

Padma, a SEWA representative, speaks to a group of mothers during a nutrition programme at the BALSEWA Center, which provides essential services for women workers in the informal sector.

Padma, a representative from the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a trade union for poor, self-employed women in the informal sector, leads a nutrition programme for mothers at the BALSEWA Center. The Center holistically addresses issues for women working in the informal sector by providing affordable daycare, health check-ups and educational programmes. The Center's daycare allows SEWA members to earn essential income for their family while keeping their children in a safe educational space. WIEGO has worked closely over the year to document SEWA's innovative approaches to service delivery, organizing and empowering women workers in the informal economy. Photo Credit: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Reportage

Our Partnerships

WIEGO is a global network that supports the movement of workers in informal employment, especially women and those living in poverty. Our mission is to improve their working conditions and to challenge the systems that cause poverty and inequality to build a more just world of work.

WIEGO forms partnerships to help us achieve our strategic priorities. These strategic priorities are defined through consultations with our membership: organizations and networks of workers in informal employment, statisticians, researchers and development professionals.

We have a niche: WIEGO’s research is collaborative and action-oriented, which means it is informed by the needs of workers and their organizations. We help develop and improve statistics on informal employment by collaborating with official statistical agencies. We support, strengthen and connect worker organizations, enabling them to build collective voice. And we promote change through policy advocacy, supporting workers to use our research in the policymaking and rule-setting spaces that affect their work and lives.

Want to partner with us on an initiative? Contact carmen.roca@wiego.org.

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(Left to right): Mirai Chatterjee, Lucia Fernandez (WIEGO) and Antonia Lisboa (CUT and ITUC) interact during the public event on "Building Collective Power for Social Justice: Workers Organizing in the Informal & Popular Economy" in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Our Activities

Workers in informal employment and their democratic organizations are at the centre of what we do and we take time to carefully plan activities in response to their needs. We develop partnerships and collaborations that aim to create systemic change.

What We Do
Dorcas Ansah of WIEGO leads a training session on solid waste management with waste pickers in Accra, Ghana, facilitating a discussion with participants. A presentation on waste management is projected in the background.

Dorcas Ansah of WIEGO facilitates a workshop on solid waste management with waste pickers in Accra, Ghana. Photo credit: Dean Saffron

Our ImpactBuilding a Fairer World of Work

Our work is done with and for organizations of workers in informal employment, to inform their struggle for the right to work in safe, decent and healthy working conditions.

We develop research and statistics that increase the visibility of workers, and support workers to organize, amplify their collective voice and influence policy.

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Worker delegates and technical team from WIEGO and the Networks after the 113th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva, June 2025. Credit: Eduardo Derrico

Our DonorsWIEGO receives support from a range of funders in our efforts to empower workers in informal employment around the globe. We are grateful to these organizations, foundations and governments for their generous financial support.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • We welcome collaboration with institutions who desire to partner with us, either through flexible core support or through targeted project initiatives.

    Please contact our Senior Strategy Advisor at carmen.roca@wiego.org to explore working together for a fairer world of work.

  • If you have a speaker in mind, please reach out to our team directly. If you need help with identifying a speaker based on the theme of your event, please contact our Communications Director, Kendra Hughes via email: kendra.hughes@wiego.org.

  • We would love to connect with you. Please reach out to our Press Officer, Nicole Pryor via email: nicole.pryor@wiego.org.

  • WIEGO doesn’t currently have an internship programme but job opportunities are frequently posted on our Careers page. Our Institutional Members can sometimes host interns if their costs are covered. Please reach out to them directly.

  • If you would like to speak directly with national, regional or global worker networks, or to any of the WIEGO Institutional Members, you can reach out to them via their websites or social media channels.