Asiye Etafuleni (AeT) is a newly established non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Durban, South Africa. AeT provides comprehensive design and facilitation services to membership-based organizations (MBOs) of the urban working poor. Asiye Etafuleni will also serve as a “learning hub” for those interested in urban planning and the informal economy. http://www.aet.org.za
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AVINA Foundation is a nonprofit organization that contributes to models for sustainable human development in Latin America. By fostering trustworthy alliances between leaders of the social and business sectors, AVINA helps to promote shared agendas for action. AVINA has 24 offices throughout Latin America and works with more than 1,000 leaders from the social and business sectors who are dedicated to sustainable development in the region. http://www.avina.net/
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HomeNet South Asia is a network organisation of women homebased workers and is promoted by UNIFEM and SEWA. It is represented nationally in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. HomeNet South Asia’s objectives for homebased workers include organizing, advocacy, capacity building and strengthening grass roots and membership-based organisations of homebased workers in South Asian countries. http://www.homenetsouthasia.org/
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HomeNet South East Asia is a network of membership-based organizations (MBOs) of homebased workers in Thailand, Philippines, Laos, and Indonesia. HomeNet South East Asia empowers homebased workers to realize their economic, political, and social rights through the strengthening of their organizations and networks, the improvement of their working and living conditions, the enjoyment of income and employment security (including social protection) and participation in governance related to homebased workers’ concerns. http://www.homenetseasia.org/home.html
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Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) is a trade union of waste pickersbased in Pune, India. The union’s core principles include adherence to honesty, integrity, accountability, equality, secularism, democratic participation and non-violence. The activities of KKPKP include developing institutional mechanisms for social security, creating platforms for social and cultural renewal, market interventions in scrap trade, and advocacy and lobbying for legislative protection.
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The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers is a collective of waste picker organizations from Latin American countries. It includes organizations from the National Movement of Waste Pickers from Brazil and Chile, the National Association of Waste Pickers from Colombia, the Association of Waste Pickers of Bogota (Colombia), the National Movement of Waste Pickers from Peru (under formation) and organized waste pickers from Argentina and Uruguay. http://www.redrecicladores.net/
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Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a trade union founded in 1972 by the noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Dr. Ela Bhatt. Today SEWA is a membership-based organisation of one million poor, self-employed women workers. The members of SEWA earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. SEWA organises women to ensure that every family obtains full employment and has access to health care, child care and shelter. http://www.sewa.org
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StreetNet International is an alliance of street vendors launched in Durban, South Africa in November 2002. Membership-based organizations (unions, co-operatives or associations) that directly organize street vendors, market vendors and/or hawkers are among their members. The alliance currently has 32 affiliated organizations in 28 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. http://www.streetnet.org.za/
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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy by increasing their representative Voice through more and stronger organizations and their official Visibility through better statistics and research. The individuals and institutions in the WIEGO network are drawn from three broad constituencies: membership-based organizations (MBOs) of informal workers; research, statistical, and academic institutions; and development agencies of various types (non-governmental, governmental, and inter-governmental). http://www.wiego.org
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The Inclusive Cities project is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through grants to Inclusive Cities co-founders: AVINA Foundation, HomeNet, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), StreetNet International, and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
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