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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing

Supporting Domestic Workers. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing. About WIEGO. A global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve
the status of the working poor, especially women

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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing

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  1. Supporting Domestic Workers Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing

  2. About WIEGO • A global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve
the status of the working poor, especially women • The WIEGO network consists of individuals and institutions from three broad constituencies: membership-based organizations, researchers & statistitiens, professionals from development agencies • In all our activities we seek to increase: • Voice– by supporting and strengthening organizations of informal • workers, facilitating networking and helping them gain • representative voice • Visibility- through research, advocacy, helping improves official statistics • Validity- by promoting mainstream recognition of the working • poor in the informal economy

  3. WIEGO: Supporting IDWN & C189 Campaign Organizing • Facilitated the idevelopment of the IDWN in collaboration with the IUF • Helped raise funds and supported the Campaign for an ILO Convention, through regional workshops, meetings of the Steering Committee, participation of domestic workers at the ILCs, web assistance etc • Seconded a WIEGO team member to the IUF/IDWN as International Coordinator Research & Publications • Fact Sheets on domestic workers and organizing, statistical information from Latin America, leaflets, documentation of ILC processes, web site assistance, OHS Education • ILC processes, organizing, planning + media support

  4. Current Support for IDWN • Facilitating new funding as part of a 5 part WIEGO global project through the FLOW grant, collaborating with IUF • Providing support for network building in Europe and for advocacy on C189 ratification in Europe • Many supportactivitiessuch as editing newsletters, facilitating workshops and meetings, publicity and advocacy through web site promotion, research and writing on domestic workers, experience sharing activities across the informal economy, translation, project management • Helping with the development of the constitution and discussion processes leading up to the Launch Congress, October 2013

  5. Future Support • WIEGO sees itself as slowlydecreasing direct support for the IDWN as it becomes more widely recognized and able to function independently. Support would then be on request (similar to WIEGO relationship with StreetNet) or through collaborative partnerships on particular issues • Future possibilities/plans: Research and collaborative project work such as on OHS, statistics, collective bargaining Education materials/facilitationon organizing, negotiating, leadership, organizational development and sustainability Support for the international network/organization- as requested

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