Presidential Jobs Summit – from the perspective of workers in the informal economy
By Pat Horn, StreetNet International Coordinator Lead-up to Jobs Summit In his State of the Nation address in February 2018, the new President of South Africa, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, announced that a Jobs Summit would be convened as soon as possible to address the problems of joblessness and unemployment in South Africa. With regard to […]
Bangladesh Affiliate from field visit lenses
By Amar Kharate, StreetNet Trainee Organizer Organisations that works for informal economy workers’ rights are very needed in today’s world. Labour at Informal Economy (LaIE) in Bangladesh, is a membership-based umbrella organisation, which includes four types of informal economy workers and street vendor is one of it. LaIE consists of 7 executive committee members 5 […]
We say goodbye to comrade Eugenio Rodriguez of Honduras
With great sadness, StreetNet International informs its members about the death of comrade Eugenio Rodriguez, leader of the Honduran organization FOTSSIEH and coordinator of the focal point of the Americas region. On our part, we wish our deepest condolences to the FOTSSIEH, to his struggle partners and to Eugenio’s family. Eugenio dedicated himself to SNI’s […]
Strategic Planning and Moving Further
by Pat Horn, StreetNet International Coordinator After the Fifth StreetNet International Congress in India in 2016, the newly-elected members of the StreetNet international Council underwent leadership training in January 2017, followed by the first meeting of the International Council. The Council started work on a new strategic plan for StreetNet based on the following four […]
Newly approved StreetNet Regional Focal Points for Asia and Europe
StreetNet welcomes the Nepal Union of Street Traders (NEST-Nepal) and Moldova-Business-Sind (Moldova) as newly established StreetNet Regional Focal Points (RFP) for Asia and Europe respectively. Recently, at the 2018 International Council meeting, StreetNet leadership approved the recommendation of its affiliates from Asia and Eastern Europe to move the StreetNet RFPs for Asia to Nepal and […]
Implementation of ILO Recommendation 204 in South Africa
by Pat Horn, StreetNet International Coordinator Pat Horn, StreetNet International Coordinator shares the progress made towards implementation of the ILO Recommendation 204: (Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy) in South Africa. Soon after the adoption of ILO Recommendation 204 (R204) at the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June 2015, the Department of […]
StreetNet Participation in the 107th Session of the International Labour Conference
by Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organiser In June 2018, a StreetNet International delegation led by the StreetNet President Lorraine Sibanda attended the International Labour Conference (ILC) 2018. The StreetNet delegation included Lorraine Sibanda, StreetNet President; Oksana Abboud, Trainee Coordinator; Wisborn Malaya, ZCIEA Secretary General; Maria Emilia Vargas Luzon, FUTTEINCO Member; Sarah Joanny Lora Abad de Valdez, […]
The Voice for the Voiceless
21 February, 2017 Jeannette Nyiramasengesho, StreetNet International Council Member and a President of SYTRIECI, StreetNet Affiliate from Rwanda, shares experience on working with refugees in her country. Sister Jeannette states: “Here in our country we continue our work for informal workers even if it is not an easy task, but we try to be the […]
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 […]
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 […]
