Mujeres en Empleo Informal: Globalizando y Organizando [Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, WIEGO] es una red global de investigación y política pública, con sede en la Universidad de Harvard. La red WIEGO busca mejorar el estatus de los trabajadores pobres, especialmente las mujeres, de la economía informal. Esto lo hace resaltando la magnitud, composición, características y contribución de la economía informal a través de estadísticas e investigación mejorada; ayudando a fortalecer las organizaciones basadas en membresía de trabajadores informales; y promoviendo diálogos de políticas y procesos que incluyan a representantes de organizaciones de trabajadores informales.
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global research-policy network, based at Harvard University, that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. It does so by highlighting the size, composition, characteristics, and contribution of the informal economy, through improved statistics and research; by helping to strengthen membership-based organizations of informal workers; and by promoting policy dialogues and processes that include representatives of informal worker organizations.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

WIEGO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - BELO HORIZONTE - MINAS GERAIS - BRASIL - APRIL 2010 19/23

WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising is a social justice network based at the School of Government, Harvard University.

The WIEGO network seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy by increasing their Voice (through organization and representation), their Visibility (through improved statistics and research), and their Validity (through legal identity and other forms of legitimacy).

WIEGO will be holding its next General Assembly in Belo Horizonte from 19 - 23 April 2010. There will be over 150 participants at that event from some 35 countries around the world, mostly delegates from member-based organizations of domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors, and waste pickers.

As part of the event WIEGO is holding also a public event with the theme "Inclusive Cities for the Working Poor" in partnership with the Department of Political Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. This event is a moment where the network has an interface with the city host and engages in policy dialogues about important issues that affects the lives and work of the working poor.

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