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	WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
		Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy through better statistics, research, programs, and policies and through increased organization and representation of informal workers.
		The individuals and institutions in the WIEGO network are drawn from three broad constituencies: membership-based organizations of informal workers; research, statistical, and academic institutions; and development agencies of various types (non-governmental, governmental, and inter-governmental).
		The common motivation for those who join the network is the troubling lack of recognition and support for the informal economy, especially the women who work in it, by policy makers and the international development community.
	www.wiego.org (133 words)

	Trade Unions and the Informal Sector, WIEGO
		WIEGO is an international coalition established to support organizing of women workers in the informal sector, also at international level.
		Some of the unions participating in WIEGO are members of national trade union centers in their home countries and some are affiliated to one or several ITSs.
		WIEGO’s working definition of the informal sector includes: self-employed (in own account activities and family businesses), paid workers in informal enterprises, unpaid workers in family businesses, casual workers without fixed employer, sub-contract workers linked to informal enterprises, sub-contract workers linked to formal enterprises.
	www.global-labour.org /trade_unions_and_the_informal_sector_wiego.htm (5032 words)

	WIEGO 2002
		The key message of WIEGO in those discussions was that representatives of membership-based organizations of informal workers should be invited, with the support of the ICFTU in particular, as official worker delegates to participate in that discussion.
		At the ILC, WIEGO was able to organize an effective lobby of about twenty persons, participating in the Conference as part of the workers' group, of the governments' group or as observers, from unions and NGOs in eleven countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.
		WIEGO has gone to great lengths to assure the ICFTU and ITS leadership that it intends to work with – not against – the international trade union movement and that it was prepared to discuss the form and the functions of the International Platform with the international trade union organizations involved.
	www.global-labour.org /wiego_2002.htm (1582 words)

	WAPPP: Women in International Development
		Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving statistics, research, programs, and policies in support of women in the informal sector of the economy.
		WIEGO's objectives are to improve the economic and social prospects of women in informal employment; to draw attention to the centrality of women's informal employment in national and global economies; and to integrate women's informal work into economic theories, policies, and markets.
		Three projects aim to improve major policies that have an impact on women workers in the informal sector; one aims to increase the voice and representation of informal sector women workers in policy-making bodies, and the last aims to improve statistics on women in the informal sector.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /wappp/programs/interntl.html (589 words)

	WIEGO Core Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the poor working in the informal economy, especially women.
		WIEGO endeavors to do so by gathering statistics and conducting research on informal workers; formulating programs and policies for informal workers; and organizing and representing informal workers.
		It will also allow WIEGO to publish a volume on informal employment in the garment sector, based in part on research funded by IDRC.
	www.idrc.ca /waterdemand/ev-26155-201_103186-1-IDRC_ADM_INFO.html (201 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Defining home-based work Home-based work is a difficult empirical concept due to an absence of a single definition of the sector and a lack of data to aid in the development of one (Prugl 1997).
		The most general definition of a home-based worker is an individual who works in his or her home (WIEGO 2000, Arriagada 1998), encompassing the self-employed;4 piece workers; salaried employees who work for a "middle-man" or a firm; or unpaid workers in a family enterprise.
		WIEGO (2000) and ILO (1995) find that home-based workers have work shifts that are much beyond the legal work week, as do Benería and Roldón (1987), for home-based workers who provide most of the household income.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/06/15/000009486_20040615094717/Rendered/INDEX/wps3295FACTORY.txt (6109 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We would like to thank the teams from the ILO, WIEGO and the World Bank, as well as the case study researchers, all of whom participated in the Technical Consultative Workshop, and are named in the Appendix.
		WIEGO, an international network of researchers and grassroots organizations of informal workers, is concerned with promoting the working conditions of people, especially poorer women, who work informally.
		WIEGO's approach to social protection focuses on informal workers, and applies a gendered risk analysis to explore their needs for social protection.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/06/23/000160016_20040623105223/Rendered/INDEX/28116.txt (13302 words)

	Programs
		Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving the status of women in the economy's informal sector.
		The coalition was born out of the conviction that women workers - particularly those from low-income households - are concentrated in the informal sector.
		Thus, WIEGO strives to improve the status of the informal sector through compiling better statistics, conducting research and developing programs and policies.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /hauser/active_backup/programs (356 words)

	Mother courage and her children
		SEWA in turn is an active member of a global alliance called WIEGO (Women In Employment, Globalising and Organising), headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		Despite this mission of advocacy, both organisations are unusual in their commitment to objective research, and to the importance of building bridges to the analytic community.
		I was invited by SEWA and WIEGO to participate in what was called an 'Exposure and Dialogue Programme' in Ahmedabad in early January.
	search.rediff.com /money/2004/feb/10guest.htm (1176 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Gender transcends disciplines
		Hosted by the Graduate School of Education (GSE), the Forum on Gender Across the Disciplines at Harvard University focused studies and activities from six Harvard schools on one day of sharing and cross-pollinating.
		The "Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing" panel introduced the work of the organization of the same name, a worldwide coalition based at the KSG that is concerned with improving the status of women in the economy's informal sector.
		Despite its robust status and its inextricable links to the formal economy, the informal economy, Patiño said, is largely invisible.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/04.25/06-gender.html (836 words)

	Response to "Gender and Free Trade" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Trade policy and gender implications are being addressed by a number of organizations.
		One new approach is being developed by WIEGO "Women in informal employment: Globalizing and Organizing".
		BRIDGE, located at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, in its July 1999 "In brief" outlines recent work on trade policy by Unifem, the North South Institute and includes an article by Mariama Williams who began this line of discussion.
	www.acdi-cida.gc.ca /branches/asia/discuss.nsf/18504f5a6a06ab3585256747003f6cc5/4c55c2ccefd859c2852567ef00728623?OpenDocument (94 words)

	IRENE - seminars on women workers in the informal economy
		The seminar was held as a joint initiative between IRENE and the Organising and Representation Programme of WIEGO.
		These organisations have strengthened their positions through networks which include HomeNet and StreetNet and international coalitions for example, WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing).
		The ILO convention on homework and the discussion to be held at this year’s ILO conference in June on "Decent work and the informal economy" has begun the process of recognition of rights for these workers although the process of their formal representation in policy bodies still has a long way to go.
	www.irene-network.nl /workers_is/labourco.htm (207 words)

	Home
		From 24 - 26 April 2003, I represented StreetNet at a Latin American regional workshop on “Challenges for Workers in the Informal Economy” organised by Dan Gallin of the Organisation and Representation Programme of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing’s (WIEGO), with the assistance of PLADES (Programa Laboral de Desarollo) in Lima, Peru.
		At this workshop we were able to make great progress in expanding StreetNet’s contacts in most of these countries, and we have been in further contact with many of them by e-mail.
		We also met members of the Latin American regional office of the ILO in Lima, and discussed further co-operation between WIEGO, StreetNet and the ILO in the region.
	www.streetnet.org.za /english/latinamerica2.htm (883 words)

	IDS BRIDGE Development and Gender in Brief 8: Trade Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		WIEGO's Global Markets Programme is working to identify critical issues in three sectors: agro-processing, non-timber forest products and garments.
		With the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) under the WTO by 2005, WIEGO's priority is to understand how the garment industry in different countries will respond to intensified competition.
		WIEGO itself has made an important step in giving voice to such organisations in the international policy arena.
	www.snvworld.org /cds/rgGEN/VENA/bridge8.htm (3173 words)

	WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #41
		Liberally scattered with practical examples, it provides a convincing case for an increased emphasis on informal employment and gender in poverty reduction strategies, and sets out a strategic framework that offers guidelines for policy makers seeking to follow this approach.
		A major thrust of WIEGO‚s work is to mobilize credible research and statistics in support of the working poor˜especially women˜in the informal economy.
		WIEGO‚s work is also premised on the need for women workers to organize at local and international levels in order to respond effectively to the new opportunities˜and negative impacts˜associated with global trade and investment.
	www.womenink.org /booklinks/Booklink41.htm (1589 words)

	Informal Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This research is being carried out under the auspices of the international research and activist network Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising or WIEGO (visit their website at www.wiego.org) The clothing case study is being done in collaboration with the Dutch research agency SOMO.
		In the first stream WIEGO engages with policy makers and influences in international agencies, striving to mainstream the needs for social protection of informal workers into programmes of, for example social security (in the International Labour Organisation) and poverty reduction strategies (in the World Bank).
		Francie Lund and Caroline Skinner were approached in November 1999 by the Durban City Council to assist in developing an effective and inclusive policy on the informal economy.
	www.nu.ac.za /csds/informaleconomy.htm (1275 words)

	sewa.org \| campaigns \| home-based workers' campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The campaign has been strengthened by the formation of a new organisation, Women in informal Employment Globalising and Organising (WIEGO) formed in 1997.
		SEWA is a founder member of WIEGO along with the Harvard institute of international Development (HIID) and UNIFFM.
		WIEGO is committed to the struggles of all informal sector workers and experienced researchers and statisticians committed to the poor, NGOs and labour organisers are working together as a team towards this end.
	www.sewa.org /campaigns/home.htm (383 words)

	sewa.org \| campaigns \| recognition of unorganised sector workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The campaign was strengthened by WIEGO of which SEWA is an active member.
		More research and statistics on the actual numbers of workers in this sector and their significant economic contribution has led to greater visibility of these workers, and has been a boost to their organising efforts.
		In 1999, an important breakthrough was made when SEWA and WIEGO were invited to a special discussion at the ILO on the unorganised sector and trade unions.
	www.sewa.org /campaigns/unorganised.htm (216 words)

	One whole jujuflop situation » Weblogs and Taiwanese politics
		The offending website is 瑋哥部落格 (or Wiego’s blog), which seems to be a very standard blog which has a grand total of 15 entries since it started last September.
		My wife tells me the “Wiego” blogger appeared on local Chinese-language TV news last night and he’s fighting back, having denied any connection to Luo and saying that if his blog gets shut down because of Chou’s accusations that the political talk shows should be, too.
		This was also covered in today’s Liberty Times; the print edition of that paper even had the blogger’s photo.
	jujuflop.yule.org /2005/11/23/weblogs-and-taiwanese-politics (1017 words)

	WIEGO Annual Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This grant will allow IDRC's Regional Office for South Asia (SARO) to participate in the WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing) Annual Meeting.
		SARO expects to strengthen its understanding of current issues relevant to women and the informal sector by learning from the international partners and organizations in the WIEGO network, and presenting the findings in a report.
		The meeting will also provide SARO with an opportunity to seek future partnerships with conference participants and build effective alliances with regional donors on this issue.
	www.idrc.ca /acacia/ev-26155-201_101246-1-IDRC_ADM_INFO.html (215 words)

	Women and Employment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1997, an organization was created in order to encourage home-based workers and/or street vendors help influence the policies that affect their living.
		WIEGO, Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing has done much for the rights of women in areas such as South Africa.
		Home-based women and vendors now have opportunities to get involved with their community and local governments.
	www.drmcilvaine.com /pages/courses/ecofem/students3/employment.htm (210 words)

	May 2002, New resources and publications - Clean Clothes Campaign
		Last april IRENE and WIEGO jointly organized a seminar under the title '"Decent working conditions for informal economy workers'', to prepare the lobby for the International Labour Conference of the ILO in june, which this year deals with the subject of Informal Employment.
		Contact WIEGO at wiego@ksg.harvard.edu for more information on the activities that will be undertaken around the ILC.
		This week the final report from the just-concluded health and safety project in three footwear plants in the Pearl River Delta of China was released.
	www.cleanclothes.org /publications/02-05-recources.htm (419 words)

	Food Microenterprises
		This could be classified as far "upstream" as flour and rice milling to as far "downstream" as marketing an imported, packaged food.
		Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO): is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving the conditions and advancing the status of women in the informal sector of the world economy through better statistics, research, programmes and policies.
		A trade-union of self-employed women that inspired the creation of StreetNet, HomeNet and WIEGO.
	www.sdri.ubc.ca /gisele/microent.htm (450 words)

	People's Movements and Networks - Global Coalitions for Voices of the Poor Web Guide - World Bank Poverty Net
		Women in Informal Employment, Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
		Description: WIEGO is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving statistics, research, programs, and policies in support of women in the informal sector of the economy.
		Description: GROOTS is an international movement giving voice and power to grassroots women's initiatives for eradication of poverty, through policy change and development partnerships.
	www1.worldbank.org /prem/poverty/voices/globcoal/webguide/people.htm (284 words)

	StreetNet Background
		WIEGO endeavors to ensure that its research agenda and policy analysis focuses on the working poor, especially women in the informal economy.
		The Sewa Academy is the focul point for all of SEWA's capacity building and research efforts.
		ILO, Employment Sector, 2002 (PDF file, link to WIEGO).
	www.streetnet.org.za /english/page7.htm (287 words)

	IMPROVED STATISTICS ON THE INFORMAL ECONOMY
		The recommendation builds on the work of the Statistics Bureau of the ILO, the Expert Group on Informal Sector Statistics – the Delhi Group, the research policy network, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and a number of countries which have placed high priority on the development of statistics on the informal economy.
		, a report prepared by a team of consultants affiliated with WIEGO and the Delhi Group and the Compendium of Official Statistics on Employment in the Informal Sector
		They also draw on a side meeting organised by WIEGO in cooperation with the ILO in Geneva, in June of this year, to discuss future work to improve statistics on the informal economy.
	mospi.nic.in /informal_paper_2003_11.htm (1172 words)

	Organizing - SITE DESIGN: Organizing information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		WIEGO: Women in the Informal Economy; Globalizing and Organizing.
		A global network of activists, researchers, and policy makers concerned with improving the
		Our day-to-day professional and social lives rarely demand that we There are five basic steps in organizing your information:
	linksseek.com /lksk/organizing.html (372 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Rich World, Poor Women. Sites of Interest \| PBS
		Read the UNIFEM Report "Progress of the World's Women 2000".
		A global research and policy analysis network focusing on the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy, WIEGO seeks to improve research and statistics in order to help organizations of informal workers to promote national policies that would directly benefit the working poor.
		The site explains each of WIEGO's five "Programme Areas" and offers fact sheets that explain the state of the informal economy and the sub-sectors of labor within it.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/womensites.html (568 words)

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