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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.〔See Hauser Centre for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/tour/programsandprojects/wiego/〕 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. The WIEGO network was founded in April 1997 by a group of ten activists, researchers, and development practitioners, based around the globe, who worked on the informal economy and articulated a shared concern that the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy were not well understood, valued, or supported in policy circles or by the international development community.〔http://www.wiego.org〕 Among the founders was Professor Martha Chen, a Harvard Lecturer in Public Policy〔See Harvard Website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/martha-chen〕 and currently WIEGO's International Coordinator. The founding steering committee chair was Indian civil rights leader Dr. Ela Bhatt. The WIEGO secretariat is currently located at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.〔See Harvard website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/tour/programsandprojects/wiego/〕 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.〔WIEGO's Articles of Association are found here: http://wiego.org/sites/wiego.org/files/WIEGO_Articles_of_Association_%20June2011.pdf〕 In 2011, WIEGO was granted charity status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales (Registered Charity No. 1143510).〔http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/index.aspx〕 ==Mission and Goals== 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. 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."〔''WIEGO Annual Report April 2010 - March 2011.'' Cambridge, MA, USA: WIEGO, pp. 3.〕 WIEGO’s objectives, as detailed in the Register of Charities,〔Charity Commission, England and Wales〕 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: a) conducting, commissioning or encouraging research into the experiences and conditions of the informally employed, the working environment and conditions within the informal economy, the wider policy/regulatory environments under which the informal workforce operates, and the causes, effects and ways of addressing the issues of the working poor within the informal economy, and making the useful results publicly available; b) advancing the education of policy decision-makers, the wider public, supporters of the working poor and the working poor themselves, in relation to the causes, effects and ways of improving circumstances for the working poor within the informal economy; and c) helping membership-based organizations of the working poor to work with and on behalf of their members.〔Objectives detailed in the Register of Charities, Charity Commission, England and Wales.〕 According to the Informal Waste Management Knowledge Hub,〔http://www.informalwastesector.net/resources/view/169787/〕 WIEGO seeks to help the working poor in the informal economy, especially women, achieve increased: * voice through stronger organizations of the working poor in the informal economy and by promoting their representation in policy-making and rule-setting processes; * visibility by undertaking and sponsoring research; helping to develop and improve official labour force and other economic statistics on informal employment and the informal economy; and convening and participating in research conferences; and * validity by demonstrating that the working poor in the informal economy contribute to the economy and society, and are legitimate targets of both economic and social policies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WIEGO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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