W.I.E.G.O in Dutch means: "Wandelen is een gezonde sport". Translated in English this would mean: "Walking is a healthy sport". WIEGO is the name of a sports club based in the Netherlands. As the name already implies this club is into long endurance walking. WIEGO officially exists just over 40 years and is registered with the local authorities for the same amount of time. Long distance walks vary from 5 to 50 kilometre which are organized by WIEGO itself, or by visiting other sports clubs. WIEGO members also participate in the International Four Days Marches Nijmegen The International Four Day Marches Nijmegen (or Vierdaagse) is the largest marching event in the world. ...
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 trans-national policy research networks in several regards. Firstly, WIEGO endeavours 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. John F. Kennedy School of Government The John F. Kennedy School of Government is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Ela Bhatt is the founder of the Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) and served as the General Secretary of SEWA from 1972-1996. ...
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy through better statistics, research, programs, and policies and through increased organization and representation of informal workers.
The individuals and institutions in the WIEGO network are drawn from three broad constituencies: membership-based organizations of informal workers; research, statistical, and academic institutions; and development agencies of various types (non-governmental, governmental, and inter-governmental).
The common motivation for those who join the network is the troubling lack of recognition and support for the informal economy, especially the women who work in it, by policy makers and the international development community.
WIEGO is an international coalition established to support organizing of women workers in the informal sector, also at international level.
Some of the unions participating in WIEGO are members of national trade union centers in their home countries and some are affiliated to one or several ITSs.
WIEGO’s working definition of the informal sector includes: self-employed (in own account activities and family businesses), paid workers in informal enterprises, unpaid workers in family businesses, casual workers without fixed employer, sub-contract workers linked to informal enterprises, sub-contract workers linked to formal enterprises.
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