Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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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
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Geographic scope: |
International
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Millennium Development Goals: |
Promote gender equality and empower women
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
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Mission statement: |
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Year established: |
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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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