NATIONAL NETWORKS

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HOMENET PHILIPPINES

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​​The first meeting of prospective members of the coalition was called by Homenet Southeast Asia on November 26, 2005 at the College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. This initiative follows  the trend all over Asia where homeworkers' networks are being convened and consolidated.  There is a Homenet  Southeast Asia,  with member networks in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines  which have been in existence since the early '90s when they received support from the ILO-DANIDA Subregional Project on  Rural Homeworkers.  There is also a Homenet South Asia, composed of  national Homenets in India (which includes the  700,000 strong Self-Employed Association of Women), Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. There are plans to later converge and form Homenet Asia in  2007 in order to push more effectively for a better policy environment for homeworkers. The principal target is the ratification of ILO Convention 177 on Homework in various Asian countries.

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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES (NCWP)

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​​NCWP serves as the national coordinating body of several national women’s organizations, people’s organizations and councils of women nationwide. Since its inception in 1946, the organization has been instrumental in promoting the socio-economic status of women through implementation of existing laws/policies on women. One of its significant achievements in advocacy works is the creation of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), the National Government Machinery for Women.

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NATIONAL RURAL WOMEN COALITION

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​​National Rural Women Coalition (Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan) has members of around 426 rural women organizations in 42 provinces who are committed in the elimination of discrimination, violence and poverty, and in strengthening of the Philippine women’s movement

 

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

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HOMENET SOUTHEAST ASIA

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HomeNet Southeast Asia (HomeNet SEA), first covering Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, emerged as a result of the ILO-DANIDA subregional project on rural women homeworkers in the putting out system undertaken from 1988 to 1996. The subregional network of home based workers later began organizing work in Laos and Cambodia, and admitted CraftLink of Viet Nam and eHomemakers of Malaysia in 2010 as focal points. Since its formalization as a network in 1997.

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HOMENET SOUTH ASIA

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​​HomeNet South Asia is a regional network of home-based worker     organisations spread across eight countries. These include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Founded in 2000, we are South Asia’s first and only network for home-based workers. HNSA’s network is made up of member-based organisations (MBOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that are based in South Asia. These include trade unions, cooperatives, producer companies, social enterprises, and NGOs that engage with home-based workers. We have 60 members from the region. With technical assistance from WIEGO, South Asian governments meet with international unions, home-based worker organisations, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to formulate the Kathmandu Declaration. The historical declaration calls for the formation of country-wise National Policies that ensure minimum protection with regards to social and economic security. It also urges SAARC to recognise the issues that home-based workers face in a globalised world. HomeNet South Asia was born.

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SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

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Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is the single largest Central Trade union registered on 12th April, 1972 with a membership of over 1.5 million (2018) poor, self-employed women workers from the informal economy across 18 states in India. SEWA has facilitated organizing its members in to their own 4813 SHGs, 160 cooperatives, 15 economic federations and 3 producer companies. For a better future of work, there is a need to strengthen the scaling-up of these worker-owned and managed tiny and microenterprises, which will throw up ample employment and work opportunities for workers in the informal economy.

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ASIAN SOLIDARITY ECONOMY COUNCIL

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ASEC is the Asian hub for enhancing the responsibilities of stakeholders in co-creating a compassionate, solidarity economy. Activities of RIPESS Asia/ASEC are generally aligned with the global work program of intercontinental RIPESS, classified into 5 impact areas: Promotion of the SSE Global vision, Capacity building, Building relationships with international organizations and public policy advocacy, Communication, Networks and Mapping. RIPESS is a global network of continental networks committed to the promotion of Social Solidarity Economy. The member networks themselves (Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) bring together national and sectorial networks, thus ensuring strong territorial anchoring. The combined local and global scope gives RIPESS legitimacy to promote SSE, foster intercontinental cooperation, and advocate at different levels.

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