Swedish International Development Agency
Sida – the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency – is a government agency. Our mission is part of the national policy for global development and we strive to reduce world poverty. Sida’s activities are funded through Swedish tax revenue.
Open Society Foundations
The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, are the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights. We provide thousands of grants every year through a network of national and regional foundations and offices, funding a vast array of projects—many of them now shaped by the challenges […]
SCWU (Self-Employed and Commercial Workers’ Union of Georgia)
Trade union of self-employed workers and trade industry workers in Georgia.
ZCIEA (Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations)
Date of creation: 17 November 2002 THE ZCIEA VISION Decent standards of living for all Zimbabweans in a stable economy. THE ZCIEA MISSION Alleviating poverty through transforming informal economy activities into mainstream activities. ZCIEA OBJECTIVES 1. To organize, establish, promote and foster democratization of the environment through rights awareness, lobby and advocacy programmes targeting the […]
Xhidmat-ISH
Date of creation: September, 2000 Aims: Socio-labour protection of workers of trade, catering and other services’ spheres Short history: The Federation was created by merging of the Republican Committee of the Trade Union of Commerce, Catering, Consumer Cooperation, Trade Union of Workers of Resort establishments and tourism, the Trade Union of Fisheries Workers, Trade Union […]
Vmeste
Date of creation: 27 July, 2007 Aims: To protect the legitimate rights of the union members and their families’ members (self-employed workers). Short history: Creation of the Belarusian Trade Union “Vmeste” was the result of the strike movement of individual entrepreneurs (hereinafter IE) in Belarus in 2005- 2006. The union was formed at the request […]
USYNVEPID-CSPIB (Union Syndicale des Vendeuses et Vendeurs de Pièces Détachées et Divers du Marché de Dantokpa)
Union of Vendors of the Dantokpa Market in Benin.
UNIWA (Union of Informal Workers Associations)
UNIWA is Ghana’s first national trade union for informal workers, with the aim of protecting the rights of workers in all sectors of the informal economy.
UNICAB (União Nacional de Trabalhadores e Trabalhadores Camelôs, Ambulantes e Feirantes do BrasiI)
The National Union of Workers and Street and Market Vendors of Brazil – UNICAB founded in July 2015 articulates, organizes and builds collectively the fight in defense of the right to work and the right to the city. They are close partners of the Central Unica dos Trabalhadores – CUT, but are not formally affiliated.
UGTI (Unión General Trabajadores Independientes y de la Economia Informal)
General Union of Own Account and Informal Economy Workers in Colombia.
