Joint conference-workshop of Homenet Southeast Asia (Homenet SEA) and Homenet South Asia (HNSA) on “Building Visibility and Voice through Responsive Homebased Workers’ Organizations in Asia: Focus On ILO Convention 177 on Home Workers Ratification

 Latar Belakang

Homenet Southeast Asia (Homenet SEA) and Homenet South Asia (HNSA) have a long history of working together.  Homebased worker-leaders from Southeast Asia distinctly remember their inspiring visits to SEWA, the largest and longest existing HBW organization in Asia, during their early years of organizing. Both collaborated in a joint UNIFEM-FNV project entitled “Strengthening the Network of  Homebased Workers in Asia” which covered the period 2002 to 2006.  On two occasions, leaders of  Homenet SEA participated  in regional workshops conducted in India  under the sponsorship of HNSA and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).  Those workshops sought to build solidarity, mutual learning and experience sharing among participants so that they can strengthen their organizations and make their issues visible  Moreover, both Homenet SEA and HNSA are also strengthening membership-based organizing (MBO)  in their various country homenets in order to facilitate the emergence and empowerment of grassroots women leaders. 

It is in this context that Homenet Southeast Asia and the FES Philippines would like to invite you to attend the Joint Conference-Workshop of Homenet Southeast Asia (Homenet SEA) and Homenet South Asia (HNSA) to be held on August 2-3, 2010 in Discovery Suites, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila. 

With the theme  “Building Visibility and Voice through Responsive Homebased Workers’ Organizations in Asia: Focus On ILO Convention 177 on Home Work, ”  the purpose of this meeting will be three-fold, namely:

 1)      to share experiences and assess the campaign for ILC 177 ratification on a per country and subregional basis, in order to plot the ways forward;

2)      to share experiences and lessons in advocating for national policies and laws on homebased workers; and

3)      to review the results of the membership-based organizing initiatives discussed in previous workshops conducted by SEWA  in Ahmedabad as important steps in building cooperation and solidarity for greater visibility, participation, and empowerment of homebased workers at national,  subregional, regional, and global levels.

 

The major outcome of the activity will be a stronger sense of mission and solidarity among all the national and subregional homenets that will be the main ingredient for the success and of sustainable,  democratic, transparent, accountable, gender-responsive, and participatory initiatives at the national, subregional,  regional and global levels for the benefit of homebased workers. 

 

Given your expertise on the issue, we sincerely hope that you will accept our invitation and confirm your participation in the workshop. Kindly find attached a draft Agenda for the Meeting.

 

Waktu, Tempat, dan  Penyelenggara

It is in this context that Homenet Southeast Asia and the FES Philippines would like to invite you to attend the Joint Conference-Workshop of Homenet Southeast Asia (Homenet SEA) and Homenet South Asia (HNSA) to be held on August 2-3, 2010 in Discovery Suites, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila. 

 

Rincian Kegiatan

AUGUST 1         Day Zero

 

                                                Arrival of participants

                                Preparation of exhibits and bazaar

                                                               

                                                Welcome Dinner

 

 

AUGUST 2         Day 1

 

08:30 - 09:00 am             Registration of participants

Viewing of exhibits and bazaar

 

 09:00 - 09:30                   Opening Ritual

Ms. Zone Narito, WISEACT

 

Welcome Remarks

 

Ms. Kristina Birke

Director, Regional Cooperation for Gender Equality

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

                        

Dr. Rosalinda “Inday” Pineda-Ofreneo

Regional Coordinator, Homenet SEA

 

 

09:30 - 10:00    Key note speech

Mr. Jeff Lawrence Johnson

ILO Country Director                                                                   

 

10:00  - 10:15                   Tea Break

 

10:15 - 10:35   Policies and Programs for Homebased Workers in  the Philippines

Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz (to be confirmed)

Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)

 

10:35 - 11:00                     Comments and Reactions based on the proposed Magna Carta

for Workers in the Informal Economy (MACWIE) and  People’s Social               Protection Agenda  (PSPSA)

                                                Ms. Beth Angsioco of DSWP for MACWIE

                                                                Ms. Olive Parilla of MAGISSI for PSPA

 

11:00 - 11:30                     ILO Convention 177 on Home Work: Looking Back And Moving Forward

                                                                Mr. Dan Gallin

Global Labour Institute (GLI)

 

11;30  - 12:00 nn             Comments and Reactions

Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)

                Federation of Free Workers (FFW)

Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) 

Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP)

 

12:00 - 01:00 pm            Lunch

 

01:00 - 01:10                    Energizer

 

01:10 - 01:30                    Building  Homebased Workers’ Organizations for Greater

Visibility and Voice

                Homenet South Asia (to be confirmed)

                                                 

 

01:30  - 02:30                   Sharing of  Experiences on MBO Organizing for Policy Advocacy:

                                                Homenet South Asia country homenets

 

02:30  - 03:30                   Sharing of  Experiences on MBO Organizing for Policy Advocacy:

                                                Homenet Southeast  Asia country homenets

 

03:30  - 5:00                      Homeworkers’ Café: 

 

(Snacks will be served during the Café)

 

05:00 - 05:30                    Short sharing of insights from the stories

Table hosts

 

 

 

DAY 2 AUGUST 3

 

09.00  - 09.15 am.           Recap and synthesis of Day 1

                                                                Myrna Magbitang, Homenet SEA Documentor

 

09.15 - 10.15                      Homenet South Asia panel presentation: Summing up

 last ten years of policy advocacy  in the subregion – nodal points

                                   

                                                Sharing of good practices:  India, Nepal, Pakistan

                                    Sharing of problems and difficulties: Bangladesh,

Sri Lanka

                                                                Summing up: HNSA (to be confirmed)

 

10:15 - 10:30                    Tea break

 

10:30 - 11.20     Homenet Southeast Asia panel presentation: Summing up

                                    the last 13 years of policy advocacy in the subregion – nodal points

 

                                                Sharing of good practices: Thailand

                                                Sharing of problems and difficulties:  Indonesia, Cambodia,

                                                                                Laos

                                                                Summing-up:  Dr. Rosalinda “Inday”  Ofreneo

 

11.20 - 12.00 nn               Sharing of Experience on Using ICT as an Organizing Tool

Ms. Jeyasothy Arulambalam, eHomemakers.net, Malaysia

 

12.00  - 01.00 pm            Lunch break

 

 

01.00 - 02.00                     Workshop I: Action Plan for Advocating ILO C177 and other

                                                Policies for Homebased Workers (country and sub-regional levels)

 

02:00 - 2:30                       Presentation of  Results of Workshops for Consolidation In Plenary into an Asia-wide Plan

 

02.30  - 03.00                     Workshop II: Sustaining Policy Advocacy:

                                                 Identifying and Accessing Sources of Support

                                  

03.00 - 03.30     Concluding and Synthesizing Observations, Next Steps

                                                Dan Gallin and Inday Ofreneo

 

03.30 - 04.00                     Comments and reactions from Homebased Worker Participants

 

04.00 - 05.00    Participatory Evaluation and Vote of Thanks

                                                Closing Ritual        

                                   

Ringkasan Materi

Homeworkers are not recognized as workers yet and earn small income with long hours and no social protection.  Homeworkers need a decent and basic right.  So, the Ratification of ILC 177 is the way but need a long and hard work.

Homenet SEA and Homenet SA work very hard to make the ILC 177 ratified in national homenet.  It’s need working together with Trade Union and Confederation to do dialogue with government.

Philipines Government through the Department of Labor already set up the rules and policies about the informal workers: The Informal Employment Rules and Laws and Special Concerns for Informal Employment of Labor and Employment Minister.  Philipines also has Magna Carta for Women Informal Employment (MACWIE), the basic rights bill for women in informal workers.  The numbers of Informal Employment are 25million, 5 times then formal employment.  The informal workers movements are supported by the Researchers and Academe also joining the Trade Union movement.

The form of homeworkers around the world are 55% of informal employment (own account homeworkers) and 45% of industrial homeworkers (putting out system homeworkers).  They are not protected by the social protection, only 7 countries that already ratified the ILC 177.  The homeworkers movement must be joining the Trade Union Movement also with the Urban Poor Movement as the Industrial victims.  The movement is not just workers movement but also the social movement.

The homeworkers movement needs organization because of the economics and politics trend and face the challenges (invisibility, genders bias, acceptance as real workers).  The most effective organization is Member Based Organization (MBOs), because show the real number.  Number (quantitative data) is everything.  The organization must be registered.  MBOs is same with Union.

Notes: SEWA is NGOs but accepted in International Trade Union in 1983 but the India Trade Union not accepted SEWA until now.  SEWA activities focus on organizing, but working like a movement.  Now a day SEWA become MBOs, because NGOs did not practice democracy structure in the organization, MBOs is the best choice for homeworkers movement.

The main problem of homeworkers movement are: political influence, bureaucratic deadlock, gender bias, patriarch culture, and market flexibility.  The percentage of homeworkers are 80% women and 20% men, the number are 300million around the world, 50million in South Asia and no social protection.

Notes from Malaysia (the next member of HomeNet SEA).  Working as the social enterprise for working women live in the below of poverty line or single mother, the name is “Salam Wanita Project”, operate like cooperative and training service in the Information Communication Technology.  The SEP working based on the grass root based planning and implementation to make the women self-reliance and not depending to others.  SWP form the community empowerment project to train women do fishing and feeding the fish.  SWP supported by 17 NGOs.

Fundraising can be access to the Corporate Social Responsibility, the industrial country like Korea and Japan to build a training center like in Laos.  Transparency with strong management and accounting system is a must also build many shops or gallery to maintain the sustainable funding and self-reliance.  Sustainable development and self-reliance is everything.

The action plan for HomeNet Movement:

1.       Organize more homeworkers by the MBOs.

2.       Develop linkages with stake holders.

3.       Expanding network.

4.       Incorporation in Labor Act Reformation.

5.       Urge government include homeworkers into existing social security mechanism.

6.       Make local government responsible.

7.       Develop leadership of homeworkers.

8.       Enhance capacity of homeworkers and MBOs and country homenet.

9.       Develop database system in country and regional level.

10.   Develop and publish Economic Informal Campaigns materials as advocating tools.

11.   Sensitize the policy maker.

12.   Advocate government to mainstream homeworkers as labor force and to include in the national budget.

13.   Declare international homeworkers day (20 0ctober).

14.   Funding by CSR concept.

15.   Appeal, event, exhibition, supermarket, etc.

16.   Proposing for project funds from donors. 

 

Kesimpulan

Great step to make collaboration of HomeNet South Asia and South East Asia for the International Homeworkers Movement.  Moving forward as Union and with Trade Union because the differences very thin and fighting for the workers or labor rights.

Convince the ILO to push the national government to do ratification of ILO Convention 177, because ILC is an international commitment and obligation.

Need to organize as global or international organization.

 

INCLUSIVE URBAN PLANNING for THE URBAN WORKING POOR MEETING - Organized by HOMENET SOUTH ASIA (HNSA) & SOUTH EAST ASIA (HNSEA)

Latar Belakang

World Class Cities for All:  Inclusive Urban Planning for the Urban Working Poor

I.  BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

Over the past two decades, the informal economy has grown rapidly in all regions of the world, emerging in unexpected places and in new guises.  In developing economies, the majority of the working poor, more so women, work in the informal economy.  In transition economies, many retrenched workers and many so-called “unemployed” work in the informal economy.   And, in developed countries, an increasing share of paid workers is hired under flexible, often informal, employment arrangements and a significant share of the total workforce is self-employed.  Available evidence suggests that those who work in the informal economy, especially women, have lower average earnings and higher average risks than those who work in the formal economy.  Yet the role of informal employment in providing a key pathway out of poverty and in achieving economic growth is entirely understated. This global project would focus on addressing urban poverty by supporting and building the capacity of membership-based organizations of the urban poor working in the urban informal economy, notably: organizations of street vendors, waste pickers, and home-based workers.

There is a growing global movement of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.  Much of the impetus and inspiration for this growing movement has come from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India, a trade union of low-income women founded in India in 1972.  In 1997, SEWA helped found the global action-research-policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).  With support from WIEGO, SEWA has been a founding member of two regional organizations of home-based workers (HomeNet South and South East Asia) and an international alliance of organizations of street vendors (StreetNet International). 

 

In April 2006, members of this growing global movement of the working poor in the informal economy met in Durban, South Africa for a two-day policy colloquium called “World Class Cities for All:  Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor in the Urban Informal Economy” with a focus on street vendors, waste pickers, and home-based workers  Present at that meeting were SEWA, StreetNet International, HomeNet South and South East Asia as well as representatives from waste picker associations and other groups engaged in the urban informal economy.  The meeting was organized by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment, Globalizing and Organizing) in collaboration with StreetNet and the University of KwaZulu Natal.  The Durban meeting crystallized the thinking and work of these organizations on issues related to the urban informal economy.  Those present at the meeting emerged with a common understanding of the trends and issues facing urban informal workers and a common commitment to work together to demand recognition and support of the working poor in the urban informal economy.  As part of this commitment, in March 2008, WIEGO helped organized the first international conference of organizations of waste pickers: national and regional associations of waste pickers and their allies from over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America met for the first time.

Thirty years ago, the percentage of the global population living in urban areas was less than per cent.  2008 marked a “tipping point”: more than half of the global population now lives in urban areas.  In developing countries, 75 percent of the urban population live in slums or squatter settlement and eke out a livelihood in the urban informal economy.  Yet cities, pre-occupied with competing for ‘world class city’ status tend not to integrate informal workers and informal enterprises in their urban planning and economic development strategies.

To counter the exclusionary trends in modernizing cities today, what is called for is a fundamental rethinking and reshaping of urban plans, regulations, and policies to incorporate the working poor.  What is needed, first and foremost, is to recognize that the urban informal economy is part-and-parcel of the economy of towns and cities of the developing world and is here to stay; and that the towns and cities of tomorrow should – indeed must - remain “hybrid” if urban poverty – and urban violence – are to be reduced.  Towns and cities should allow street vendors, hawkers, small kiosks and shops to exist alongside large retail shops and malls; should incorporate waste pickers into modern solid waste management systems; and should support home-based production through basic infrastructure and appropriate zoning policies.  The living conditions of the poor often determine their work conditions and growth of urban infrastructure needs to take into account the basic needs of this large population. This will require inclusive, rather than exclusive, urban infrastructure and services; urban zoning; urban regulations and laws; and urban plans and policies.    This, in turn, will require inclusive urban planning processes in which representatives of the working poor have a voice.

At the Durban urban policies colloquium, a common vision was presented that provides a conceptual and operational foundation for the proposed project with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  More importantly, the international movement of organizations of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy provides existing networks of membership-based organizations of the urban working poor that have already collaborated together in various ways.

Vision of success:

In the pursuit of “World Class Cities for All”, the movement of the working poor in the urban informal economy seeks:

• A vision of cities that incorporates the informal economy as a valuable asset that not only adds colour and life to cities, but contributes significantly to the economy.
• A vision of the city which recognizes that the living and working needs of the urban working poor and builds the city around them.
• A creative approach to planning that accommodates the dynamic working and living needs of those working informally through their involvement in decision-making and implementation processes.
• Workers that are organized enough to shape the trajectories of cities as well as local and national governments that proactively seek to hear the voices of more marginalized groups within the informal economy.

 

II.  PROJECT OBJECTIVES

This is a global collective project with the following Common Core Objectives. 

1. To improve the organizational strength and bargaining-negotiating-advocacy capacity of the Membership-Based Organizations (MBOs) of street vendors, waste pickers, and home-based workers and to assist them in achieving their needs and goals for supportive urban laws, regulations, and policies, as well as adequate housing, infrastructure, and other essential services.
2. To provide the research and statistics, good practice examples, and policy analysis that the Membership-Based Organizations (MBOs) of urban working poor need to pursue their activities and campaign objectives for 2009-2013.
3. To educate and influence key policymakers at the local, national, and international levels by disseminating research, statistics, and data analysis that illuminates issues faced by the urban working poor.
4. To raise awareness among policymakers of the need and benefits to including the urban working poor within the framework of “World Class Cities for All.”

 

 

Waktu, Tempat, dan  Penyelenggara

Bangkok – Thailand, 02^nd—04^th  February 2010

HomeNet South Asia and HomeNet South East Asia.

 

 

Rincian Kegiatan

Schedule for the Meeting:-

Date	Topic	Detailed discussion on
2nd Feb 2010	Project Orientation	-          IUP Proposal (objectives, activities, outcome, impact) -          Progress Reporting  format (as per GATES Foundation requirements)
3rd Feb 2010	Project Activities Planning of MBO training in Year I & Year II	-          Activities in YEAR 1.   -          MBO training ( expectations from this training, finalization of training dates)
4th Feb 2010	Gaps in the Financial Due Diligence	-          Financial Manual -          Accounting System -          Annual  reporting  format (as per GATES Foundation requirements)

 

Ringkasan Materi

Day 1; 2^nd February 2010; PROJECT ORIENTATION

 

Bill and Mellinda Gate Foundation (BMGF) gives donation to cope the urban problem especially for women working poor, they call the project as the “URBAN INCLUSIVE CITY”.

Program Objective:

1.       Strengthen and expand very low income urban women working poor, women home workers for Indonesia.

2.       Awareness and campaign for urban zoning, infrastructure service, and planning affected the women home workers.

3.       Capacity building, Members Based Organization, and Networking.

4.       Meet specific livelihood and security for women home workers.

 

Voice:

1.       Mapping exercise.

2.       Organizing new group of home-based workers (HBW).

3.       Round table dialogue.

4.       Policy forum and awareness raising based on research finding.

5.       Regional compilation of report.

6.       Research on HBW issues.

7.       National and regional fair for HBW production.

8.       Best practices will be documented.

Target:

HomeNet International, build the HBW international organization.

1.       Clear profile of HBW based on mapping, research, and action.

2.       Well documentation.

3.       Well accomplishment.

 

Program Monitoring unit:

1.       Weekly basis with HomeNet South Asia.

2.       Consolidate every month.

3.       Program managers and account manager create the separate email.

4.       Teleconference between Finance Team (HNSA and SEA) with countries will take place one a fortnight to support the process of establishing the accounting system in SEA countries.

 

 

Day 2; 3^rd Feburary 2010; Project Activities and Planning of MBO training in Year I & Year II

Country Problem Sharing

1.       Market flexibility, makes the number of HBW increase and become the black economy.

2.       Joint job as homeworkers, street vendors, and waste pickers.

3.       No policy and no social protection for HBW.

4.       Competition with the big company and factory.

5.       Not a hot issue yet.

 

 

Member Based Organization (MBOs) Worksho at SEWA (March 2010)

1.       The concept of MBO

a.       The structure and model of MBO.

b.      Democratic mechanism.

c.       Governance and due diligence.

d.      6 characteristics of MBO.

e.      Election and representative of HBW at the homenet.

2.       Various model adopted by the SEWA to empower women working poor.

àCommunity Based Organization, Cooperative,  Networking.

 

MBO is the self-reliance organization, the members pay for the membership to the organization.

1.       MBO versus Network Organization.

2.       Formating the MBO for HNSEA and in each country.

3.       Federation of HBWs and the network with trade union, research institute, trade institute, researchers and university, and other institutions that’s concern about the HBW.

4.       The experience and knowledge from MBO workshop must be distribute to other homenet country members.

5.       MBO Workshop at SEWA planned: 20^th--24^th March 2010.

 

 

 

Day 3; 4^th February 2010; Gaps in the Financial Due Diligence

International Labor Convention 177 Campaign

 

Joint program among the HNSA and HNSEA and forming the Homenet International.

 

HomeNet South East Asia (HNSEA):

1.       Philipine: Decent work agenda until 2011

2.       Thailand: Labor act ratification. Labor Minitry reject the ILC 177 ratification.

3.       Indonesia: The government reject to ratification of ILC 177.

4.       Laos: The government still studying about ILC177.

5.       Cambodia: No campaign.

 

HomeNet South Asia (HNSA):

1.       India: Government reject.

2.       Srilangka: Look to India

3.       Bangladesh: Look to India

4.       Pakistan: Political problem.

5.       Nepal: Adopted but not ratification yet.

 

Note: only 7 countries already ratification ILC 177 (Denmark, Argentine, Netherland, Bosnia etc.).

 

HNSA and HNSEA Meeting to forming the HN International and international campaign for ILC 177

The meeting will be at Bangkok – Thailand, 1^st—4^th August 2010.

 

Financial and Accounting System

Objective:

1.       Communicating the reporting.

2.       Reporting formats.

3.       Indirect cost and traveling cost issue with budget categories.

4.       Fund flexibility.

5.       The system gap.

 

Good financial system à to get money à to do activities à to help other people.

Objectives of HomeNet:

1.       Visibility of HBW.

2.       Advocate national policy.

3.       Strengthening the HBW networking.

 

Continues Money Flow:

1.       Spending money responsible according to the standard rules.

2.       Showing our result to the funders and the world.

3.       Being creative in fund raising.

 

 

Working plan:

Prepare the Financial and Accounting System Manual

1.       Cycle of Financial Management.

2.       Process (Flow chart, operational and financial guidelines, control and procedures).

3.       Chart of account.

4.       Authority and segregation of job (find the example on the HNSA and HNSEA Manual System).

 

The HNSA Trust System:

1.       Financial procedures.

2.       Financial manual.

a.       Preparation of budget.

                                                               i.      Experience and need.

                                                             ii.      Percentage.

b.      Funds management.

                                                               i.      Board or council à chairman/woman + project manager.

                                                             ii.      Separate bank account.

                                                            iii.      Signature authority.

                                                           iv.      The sustainability of the fund

                                                             v.      Finds network to share the knowledge to keep sustainable activities.

c.       Finance or purchase committee (procurement procedure).

d.      Accounting system.

e.      Audit requirement.

f.        Financial monitoring and reporting system.

g.       Reporting guidelines.

3.       Delegation of power and conflict of interest.

4.       Travel policy.

 

Details of IUP Project

Finance Requirement:

1.       Separate account for IUP Project.

2.       The Bank Account minimum tree signatories.

3.       Full time account persons.

4.       Formation of Finance Committee and purchase Committee.

5.       Timely reporting of financial statement.

 

Accounting Requirement:

1.       Double entry system.

2.       Bank book, Cash book, and Journal book.

3.       Records of the vouchers.

4.       HNSA may ask the vouchers randomly.

5.       Share bank Statements with HNSA monthly basis.

6.       Share trial balance every month.

7.       Follow the HNSA Financial Manual for IUP Project.

 

 

Checklist Requirement:

1.       Separate Bank Account.

2.       List of the signatories.

3.       List of board members.

4.       List of finance committee.

5.       Proposed detailed budget.

 

Note: No reallocation of the previous budget to next year budget.

 

Identified the gaps:

1.       Registration of foundation.

2.       Registration of amendments.

3.       Lack of selection procedure and responsibilities of board members.

4.       No complete articles of association (selection, meeting, minutes).

5.       No collecting of membership fees.

6.       Lack of authorization for operating bank account and for authorizing payments.

7.       Lack of reimbursement policy.

8.       No fund management by the board.

9.       No conflict of interest policy.

10.   Lack of accounting system.

11.   No system for internal audit.

12.   No register of capital assets.

13.   Yearly tax payment.

14.   Segregation of duties and delegation of power.

15.   No proper fund management and cash flow.

16.   Lack of awareness of country laws.

17.   No proper reporting system.

 

Action plan:

1.       Taking care of registering foundation.

2.       Bye laws of organization amended.

3.       Procedure of selection of board members + responsibilities.

4.       Collecting annual membership fees as working capital or liquid funds position.

5.       Implementing travel reimbursement policy (adopted from HNSA draft).

6.       Board must be regularly deliberate on the funds management.

7.       Implement of conflict of interest.

8.       Setting up detailed:

a.       Ledger.

b.      Bank book.

c.       Bank reconciliation statements.

d.      Separate bank account for each project.

9.       Implement procedures for proper segregation of duties.

10.   Implementing system of internal audit.

11.   Setting up and maintain register of capital assets.

12.   Implementing travel reimbursement policy (see HNSA draft).

 

 

Kesimpulan

This project is the international project for growing global movement of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.  With the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the global action-research-policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India and their founding member of two regional organizations of home-based workers (HomeNet South and South East Asia) and an international alliance of organizations of street vendors (StreetNet International).  In April 2006, members of this growing global movement of the working poor in the informal economy met in Durban, South Africa for a two-day policy colloquium called “World Class Cities for All:  Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor in the Urban Informal Economy” with a focus on street vendors, waste pickers, and home-based workers  Present at that meeting were SEWA, StreetNet International, HomeNet South and South East Asia as well as representatives from waste picker associations and other groups engaged in the urban informal economy.  The Durban meeting crystallized the thinking and work of these organizations on issues related to the urban informal economy.

 

Bill and Mellinda Gate Foundation (BMGF) gives donation to cope the urban problem especially for women working poor through WIEGO and SEWA appointed HomeNet South and South East Asia to run the project, they call the project as the “URBAN INCLUSIVE CITY”. The Program Objective are Strengthen and expand very low income urban women working poor, women home workers for Indonesia; Awareness and campaign for urban zoning, infrastructure service, and planning affected the women home workers; Capacity building, Members Based Organization, and Networking; Meet specific livelihood and security for women home workers.  As the member of HomeNet SEA, the HomeNet Indonesia involve in this project as the project contractee.