WIEGO is a global research-policy network 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 workers’ organizations. Its five programme areas are: Global Markets, Organization and Representation, Social Protection, Statistics, and Urban Policies.
The Members and Associates of the WIEGO network, including the members of its Steering Committee and Advisory Committees, are drawn from its three constituencies: (a) membership-based organizations of informal workers; (b) research, statistical, and academic institutions; and (c) international development agencies (non-governmental and inter-governmental).