Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and AAPS are delighted to announce that the two networks have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which commits them to collaboration on promoting initiatives, plans and policies which encourage pro-poor and inclusive cities and towns in Africa.
WIEGO is a global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. It has associates in over 100 countries around the world. Click here to visit the WIEGO website for more information.
The partnership recognizes that planners play an important role in either facilitating or hindering the inclusion and improvement of informal work-spaces and settlements, and that the education of planners has a fundamental impact on both their values and understanding, responses and practices, in relation to urban informality. A detailed programme of work will be developed by the partnership.
Click here to download the signed Memorandum of Understanding document.
