WIEGO General Assembly Durban 2223rd April, 2006

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WIEGOGeneral AssemblyDurban 22-23rd April, 2006

• Global Markets Programme
• Elaine Jones and Sarah Gammage

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Long term vision

• Analysing and facilitating market access for
  informal producers
• Platform voice for informal workers in
  formulation of ethical/fair trade standards
• Collection and analysis of evidence on impact of
  trade liberalisation on the working poor

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Long term vision

• A conceptual model for analyzing
• (a) the links between the informal economy and
  the global economy and
• (b) the impact of trade liberalization on the
  informal economy
• Critical mass of countries with stats on size,
  composition and contribution of the export-linked
  informal economy
• Regional and global estimates of the contribution
  of the informal economy to the global economy

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Areas of Activity

• Design, marketing and other support services to
  help organizations of informal producers gain
  access to global or export markets
• Initiatives to increase the representative voice
  of informal workers, especially those in
  developing countries
• Research studies and data collection

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The story so far

• Comparative country studies of informal workers
  in specific sectors of the global economy
• Garments 25 case studies
• NTFPs 12 case studies in Uganda
• Market research

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2 year plans

• Completion of garment studies Ann Westons
  synthesis report
• To build on NTFPs work identify new case
  studies and compare existing ones
• Affiliation with other networks on labour
  standards and fair trade
• Networking with UK based organisations working on
  home-workers
• Reviewing and developing proposals for research

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2 year plans

• Training and research on global value chains
• Broadening the inclusion of member-based
  organizations of informal workers
• Active engagement with informal workers and
  producers to promote market access
• Cross cutting work with other programmes e.g. on
  OHS