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StreetNet International

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Climate Change Development Disabled Persons Extreme poverty HIV/AIDS Labour Micro-Credit Social Development Women/gender Equality Youth Financing for Development: Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Capacity building Education and training of women Women and HIV/AIDS Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the environment Social Development: Cooperative Disabled persons Employment Poverty Social policy Youth Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Climate change Poverty
Geographic scope:	International
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower women Ensure environmental sustainability
Mission statement:	Streetnet International is a membership based organisation of street vendors, market vendors and cross-border traders and hawkers. Its aim is to promote local, national and international linkages between organisations of vendors and to promote their sustainable livelihoods. it aims to build an information base about the situation of vendors; to document and disseminate information on effective organising strategies, to encourage local authorities to develop inclusive and sustainable urban policies which take into account the needs of informal workers, in particular street and market vendors; to encourage the development of negotiation and consultative structures between the representative organisation of street and market vendors and relevant national and municipal authorities; to promote linkages between national labour movements and representative organisations of informal economy workers.
Year established:	2002
Year of registration:	2002
Organizational structure:	StreetNet International is a democractic membership based organisation. It affiliates organisations of street, market and cross-border traders. It has an international congress every three years where all affiliates who are in good standing with their affiliation fee payments are entitled to send delegates, the number of whom is based on the size of the organisations' membership. It elects an international council at the Congress comprising 15 members, with 50% women's membership. It has an Executive Committee which is regionally based and meets every 3 months.
Number and type of members:	At its last Congress in Benin, in August 2010, it had 35 affiliated organisations, from 30 different countries, in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, with a paid up membership of around 300,000 members.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	It is a member of Women in Informal Employment Globally Organising
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

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