WIEGO
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global research and policy analysis network linked to the SEWA-inspired international movement of women in the informal economy. WIEGO is distinct from other global or transnational policy research networks in several regards. Firstly, WIEGO endeavors to ensure that its research agenda and policy analysis focuses on the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. Secondly, WIEGO seeks to improve research and statistics on the informal economy in order to help organizations of informal workers in their efforts to promote national policies that would directly benefit the working poor - especially women – in the economy. Thirdly, WIEGO has a diverse constituency cutting across the fields of action, research, and policy-making. WIEGO represents a collaboration between membership-based organizations of workers in the informal economy, support NGOs, research and statistics institutions, national governments, and international development agencies – each bringing to the collaboration their unique expertise based variously on research, statistical work, policy making, and, most critically, direct experience. We are unaware of any comparable effort to mobilize credible research and statistics in support of the working poor - especially women – in the informal economy. The WIEGO secratariat is currently located at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The Worldwide coordinator is labor rights expert Professor Martha Chen and the steering committee chair is Indian civil rights leader Dr. Ela Bhatt.
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