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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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  • Ntombikayise Gagayi, bovine head cook at Warwick Junction, Durban Post
    Access to Public Space August 12, 2019

    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...

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  • Project

    Global Movement of Home-Based Workers

    History of this Movement Home-based workers approached SEWA. We realized that many ’housewives’ are workers, but are invisible – even for...

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    August 08, 2019

    Accra Street Traders Make Their Concerns Heard by Municipal Officials

    In March 2013, a Policy Dialogue was held in Accra, Ghana between informal street traders and officials from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly...

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  • News
    Collective Bargaining August 07, 2019

    Public Dialogue on Forging a Path towards Recognition and Inclusion of Informal Workers in South Africa

    “We’re here to discuss one of the most profound challenges of our time—how to create jobs, how to increase incomes, and how to...

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  • Impact Story

    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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  • Impact Story

    Maasai Women Bead Better Products, Better Lives

    by Leslie Vryenhoek

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  • Impact Story

    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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  • Impact Story

    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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  • Impact Story

    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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  • Impact Story

    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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