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Women's Economic Empowerment - Home-Based Workers Organized Strength for Home-Based Workers was a research and advocacy collaboration between the WIEGO Network and HomeNet Thailand. Launched in 2008, the project helped develop an Informal Sector Network in Thailand and broadened support for informal...
Domestic Workers' Leadership for Empowerment Economic and Employment Rights: Advancing Domestic Workers' Leadership Building on Success Under the first Women’s Economic Empowerment project (2009-12), WIEGO supported the formation of the International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN). The IDWN led an...
Leadership & Business Skills for Women Fair Trade Producers used a cascading approach to training. In Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, WIEGO’s project partners reached about 7,000 women with training in areas ranging from leadership to record-keeping, from marketing to governance.
Ghana In Ghana, WIEGO’s fair trade project worked with Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of more than 80,000 cocoa farmers. During the project, Kuapa Kokoo delivered training to at least 2,800 women farmers in 670 of its primary societies. Women's Leadership As part of the Business and Leadership project...
Stories of Change in Uganda In Uganda, WIEGO had two fair trade partners that delivered Business & Leadership Skills training and support: the Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative, a farmers' cooperative, and the Ugandan Federation for Alternative Trade (UGAFAT), a network of membership-based fair trade...
An alliance between Nurturing Uganda, an NGO in the rural area of Jinja, the Ugandan Association for Alternative Trade (UGAFAT), and WIEGO has proven a remarkable boon to the 23 women who came out to meet with WIEGO representatives on a warm, sunny December day in 2015. The women represent just...
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 created a shift in perspective that has led to a better standard of living. Unity and harmony are soft, immeasurable outcomes, but for a group of women in...
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 all impact stories . Please continue–we are here, and we are willing to learn - by Brenda Leifso In December 2013, Elaine Jones, Director of the Global...
Like all groups involved in the WIEGO-led Leadership & Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair Trade project, Ngalo was encouraged to officially register as a community-based organization. In July 2015, it did. That small act has already paid big dividends. The women’s fair trade...
In a Nairobi slum, the women of Bega kwa Bega are checking linens—table runners, decorative cushion covers and an ingenious pan carrier—and then packaging each piece. It’s a flurry of activity. A buyer from Italy is coming to collect the 400-piece shipment in two days, and the women must ensure each...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.