Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing ( WIEGO ) is a global research-policy network that states as its aim to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.

Since its inception, the WIEGO network has invited membership from, and formed alliances with, three constituencies:

By the end of 2010, the WIEGO network included 168 Members – 29 Institutional and 139 Individual Members – from 28 countries.

A 10-person Board of Directors governs the WIEGO network.

In July 2007, WIEGO was registered as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in the UK ( WIEGO Ltd .) with a formal Constitution and Articles of Association.

In 2011, WIEGO was granted charity status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales ( Registered Charity No. 1143510 ).

WIEGO ’ s objectives, as detailed in the Register of Charities, are “ to improve conditions for the working poor in the informal economy caused by low earnings, high risks, and adverse working environments and conditions associated with the informal economy worldwide ( including non-standard or unprotected employment for formal firms )” by:

WIEGO supports working poor women by aiming to ensure they have adequate information, knowledge and tools and can mobilize around their rights, enhancing their safety and their earnings.

In 2009 and again in 2010, WIEGO coordinated Global Economic Crisis studies to determine how informal workers were being affected by the global economic downturn.

WIEGO represents a collaboration between membership-based organizations of workers in the informal economy, support non-governmental organizations, research and statistics institutions, national governments, and international development agencies.

WIEGO commissions research that focuses on improving statistics on, and analyzing policies relating to, the working poor who make their living in the informal economy.

Individuals from the other two constituencies who are involved with WIEGO can become Individual Members.

Linked to the SEWA-inspired international movement of women in the informal economy, WIEGO has a diverse constituency cutting across the fields of action, research, and policy-making.

WIEGO works to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy through increased organization and representation ; improved statistics and research ; more inclusive policy processes ; and more equitable trade, labour, urban, and social protection policies.

According to the Informal Waste Management Knowledge Hub, WIEGO seeks to help the working poor in the informal economy, especially women, achieve increased:

Membership-based organizations ( MBOs ) of informal workers always involved in the identification, prioritization and design of WIEGO activities.

Membership-based organizations of informal workers that are actively involved with WIEGO are asked to become Institutional Members.

WIEGO helped establish the International Domestic Workers ' Network ( IDWN ), and provided technical and strategic advice, research and capacity building, as well as assisting the IDWN in fund raising.

WIEGO does not set an agenda but rather support domestic workers, street vendors, waste pickers, garment workers, smallholder farmers and others are in articulating their own demands and participating directly in policy and planning processes.

From 2009-2011, funding from the Government of Netherlands MDG3 Fund allowed WIEGO to assist domestic workers in their struggle for an international convention that would help secure their rights as workers.

She has served as Chair of the SEWA Cooperative Bank, of HomeNet, of the International Alliance of Street Vendors, and of WIEGO.

The WIEGO secretariat is currently located at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

WIEGO's stated mission: " WIEGO believes all workers should have equal economic opportunities and rights and be able to determine the conditions of their work and lives.

Board members are drawn from WIEGO ’ s three constituencies.

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