WFTO approves gender resolution

A victory for the project parters who participated in the regional meetings of the WFTO. See the video and comments of partners.

India documentaries presented to WFTO audience

“These are the women of the fair trade movement … this is the fair trade story.”
“These movies took me back to my life once upon a time … some women talked about the feelings I had.”

These are some of the thoughts shared by the audience who saw the documentaries produced in India at the WFTO Conference. You can find these documentaries under the project’s page.

A collective blog

Window to the World: Fair Trade for Women Producers: Fair Trade Organisations and Representatives of Producer Groups – learning how to blog to get their message out:

If you are interested in Fair Trade and especially in women’s economic empowerment then stay with us. We are talking about a project that shows how women producing for Fair Trade markets can change their lives and build a better world for the next generation. We are assembled in Mombasa as a group of organisations from five countries in two continents that represent grass roots producers and the marketing organisations who provide support and linkages to the Fair Trade market.

Project partners get together at the WFTO 11th Biennial Global Conference

Fair Trade for a Common Good is the theme of the World Fair Trade Organisation, (WFTO) conference that begins today 22nd May, 2011. The last conference was held in Kathmandu, Nepal in May 2009 and that is where we first came together as the country networks of five countries from Africa and Asia. Our goal was to show that being organised in collective forms of enterprise for market access leads to women’s economic empowerment. We are here, as women producers and the Fair Trade organisations that provide the link to Fair Trade and mainstream markets, as a testimony to the results.

Partners present the project to the WFTO audience

Watch the presentaion

Welcome to the Fair Trade for Women Producers

Demonstrating that women in informal employment, organized in groups, are able to engage with domestic and global markets, sustain themselves in hard times, and transform their lives.

In 2009 WIEGO embarked on a global project to promote women’s economic empowerment as a response to the Dutch Government’s Global Call to Action on Millennium Development Goal 3: Gender Equity.

Project Objectives & Methodology

Fair Trade for Women Producers is one element of a global project that works with different sectors of informal workers. The Fair Trade for Women Producers project has the following objectives: