Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing

Supporting Domestic Workers

A global action-research-policy network that seeks to improvethe 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

About WIEGO

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

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 support activities such 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

Future Support

WIEGO sees itself as slowly decreasing 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/facilitation on organizing, negotiating, leadership, organizational development and sustainability

Support for the international network/organization- as requested