Target Groups:
Vulnerable, marginalized and unrecognized informal economy workers with women accounting over 65 percent; they include; -
- Socio-economic Rights - Own account or self-employed workers working alone or with family
- members as unpaid employees & apprentices
- Dependent workers in micro-enterprises working on contract or casual basis, family workers & apprentices.
Categories of Membership:
- Market vendors
- Street vendors
- Hawkers (mobile vendors)
- Fisher folks
- Street vendors
- Small scale manufacturers (Jua-kalis)
- Casual labourers and unpaid family workers
- Waste pickers, cleaning agents and/or recyclers
- Informal Micro service providers (shoe shiners, cobblers, head-loaders)
PLAVU Strategic Membership Services:
- Institutional development
- Support to building Informal Economy Workers’ Organisational Structures
- Collective action and or negotiations
- Legal aid services
- Promoting work place OHS
- Building informal economy women workers’ structures and activities
- Information and campaign activities
- Building formal-informal linkages (B2B) .