This series of training manuals aims to improve the financial independence and capacities of home-based women producers, particularly those involved in fair trade activities. It developed out of the trainings done in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. The series goes through the steps of leadership development; cooperative and independent financing; and the broadening business skills such...
Six booklets (also available in French, Portuguese and Spanish) Recruiting Informal Workers into Democratic Workers’ Organisations ...
A guidelines for building membership-based organizations. Success stories from around the world highlight the importance of mobilizing workers. (Also available in Spanish). ...
By Marlese von Broembsen and Sarah Orleans Reed This 2020 guide explains the OECD Guidelines for Multi-National Enterprises (MNEs) and MNEs’ responsibilities to workers in their supply chains. It contains provisions that relate specifically to homeworkers. This guidebook explains how the complaints process works, with examples, and suggests how homeworkers’ organizations might use the OECD...
This manual, primarily for trade unionists and social movement activists, is designed to provoke and encourage discussion about homeworkers and their rights as workers, raise awareness about the international ILO Home Work Convention and its significance for homeworkers in each country, encourage homeworkers and their supporters to get the ILO Home Work Convention put into...
Considered informal workers, they are often linked in the chain of production with little or no collective bargaining power to negotiate the terms of their labour with contractors. ...
Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. ...
Communicationsis a very important aspect of poor, self employed women’s lives and struggles,. These women communicate in their own way and with various groups in society. They are inspired by and draw strength from each other, and a sense of solidarity and unity develops among them. ...
Toolkit designed in response to a demand of HNSA’s membership. It aims to offer an understanding on global and domestic garment supply chains, the issues aced withing these supply chains and highlights existing legal instruments. The tool kit is meant for trainers and organisers. ...
An illustration poster outlining the different types of work done by home-based workers aimed at enhancing workers’ stories and understanding the wide variety of activities in the sector. ...
