Strengthening our internal organizational democracy
2 December, 2016 By Pat Horn, StreetNet International Coordinator StreetNet was launched on 14th November 2002, and has held 5 international congresses every three years in accordance with the StreetNet Constitution – in 2004 in Korea, 2007 in Brazil, 2010 in Benin, 2013 in Chile, and in 2016 in India. This is an important part […]
Streetnet holds successful Regional Workshop in LAOS
28 November, 2016 By Oksana Abboud – StreetNet Organizer StreetNet held a successful Regional Workshop on Organizing Informal Workers, on 21-22 November 2016 in Vientiane City, Laos. The workshop was part of a StreetNet-OXFAM partnership. 40 participants attended the workshop which Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organiser, facilitated. The main aims of the workshops were: To understand […]
Streetnet International President’s Message on International Vendors Day (14 November 2016)
14 November, 2016 Comradely Greetings to you all Informal Economy Workers in the entire world. Today marks the 5th commemoration of the International Vendors Day. This is a special DAY for all informal economy workers who have become the bulk and majority of the working population across the whole world, of which the majority are […]
"Sustaining current struggles to end destruction of informal homes and livelihoods and establish a credible vendors/government negotiation structure in Lagos, Nigeria"
21 October, 2016 The ban of street trading in Lagos will take away the means of livelihood from street vendors in the midst of economic hardship in Nigeria. Taking into account a high unemployment rate in the country, Lagosians feel the governor should have looked for a way of regulating the activities of the vendors […]
5th StreetNet International Congress in the eyes of Admin team "A remarkable moment for StreetNet International"
Ruby Essack, Congress Administrator My impressions are that the Congress focus was predominantly about voting in the new leadership instead of being focused and used as an opportunity to discuss various strategic issues and strategies for the organization and its future. I think that it is great that for the 1st time in history StreetNet […]
El Salvador – Con diálogo negociación todos ganamos
23 de septiembre de 2016 El Sr. José Herminio Díaz, Secretario General de FESTIVES, la afiliada de StreetNet de El Salvador, comparte los progresos realizados recientemente con respecto al diálogo con el municipio local en su país. En San Salvador iniciamos un proceso de diálogo tripartito a inicios de agosto del 2015 entre gobierno local, […]
12th Southern Africa Civil Society Forum and StreetNet-SATUCC Regional Workshop on the implementation of ILO Recommendation 204 on “Transitions from the informal to the Formal Economy”
15 September, 2016 The 12th Southern Africa Civil Society forum took place at Lugogo Conference Centre in Mbabane, Swaziland from the 15th to the 17th of August 2016. A total of eight informal economy organisations from eight Southern African countries participated with ZCIEA represented by ten delegates led by the organisation’s National President Lorraine Sibanda. […]
12th Southern Africa Civil Society Forum Commission 6: Transition from informal to formal economy
The major international development during 2015 was the adoption of a new ILO Recommendation 204 on Transitions from the Informal to the Formal Economy. StreetNet International was one of the key organisations, together with WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising) who widely consulted organised workers in the informal economy in Africa, Asia, Latin […]
Hard efforts of street vendors in Rwanda lead to positive outcomes
9 September, 2016 Jeannette NYIRAMASENGESHO, President of Syndicat des Travailleurs Independents de l’Economie Informelle (SYTRIECI), StreetNet affiliate from Rwanda, clarifies the situation of street vendors in her country, namely after the spread of news in social media by Rwanda local government about construction of 12 mini markets for approximately 8000 former street vendors in Rwanda […]
Negotiations and Strategy course for the organizers and leaders of street vendors and informal markets workers
24 August, 2016 By Sibailly Douhoure, StreetNet Organizer Forty three delegates seventeen of whom were women came mainly from Monrovia and Paynesville to attend the seminar funded by Cities Alliance in collaboration with WIEGO /StreetNet. This activity was organized from 8 to 12 August, 2016 in Monrovia by NAPETUL (National Petty Traders Union of Liberia). […]
