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Access to Public Space August 12, 2019For 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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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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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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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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