IGTN: Economic Literacy




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IGTN defines economic literacy as the ability to understand and think critically about how trade and economic policies impact our daily lives.

By developing this kind of literacy, we become better equipped to engage with those who make and implement trade and economic policies. It also strengthens our ability to advocate for policies that are socially sustainable, prodevelopment, and gender equal.

The IGTN's economic literacy work is situated within a broad political and educational framework. The economic literacy materials that we develop are intended to educate, empower, and mobilize gender and trade activists, educators, and policy analysts around the world.

Each of the focal points of IGTN undertakes economic literacy projects to respond to regional trade and globalization issues. These projects take the form consultations with women at the community level, workshops, and the development of written materials and popular education resources. These resources are available on the different regional pages of this web site, and some resources related to the global economic literacy resources are rigth bellow.

WIDE - IGTN Europe focal point - documented and shared initiatives and examples of resistance that help transform patriarchal values, norms and the gender power relations impinging on women.

WIDE has recently launched the series bellow presented under the coordination of Benedicte Allaert, Capacity-Building Program Manager and Coordinator of the WIDE Economic Literacy Project 2003-2007.

Originally prepared in the framework of WIDE´s economic literacy project as a tool for use in the context of capacity-building workshops, highlights some struggles and initiatives led by women today in the South, North, East and West. These experiences reveal how women, through these initiatives, have been empowered at many levels. They also show how sometimes spontaneous initiatives have paved the way towards more equality and social justice.

A case study from Asia: Textile industry-When cats become tigresses in Thailand! Edited by Junya Yimprasert, from the Thai Labour Campaign and IGTN Asia. Wide publication. Jan, 2008.

A case study from the Caribbean: Banana Farming in St Vincent& the Grenadines. Edited by Christobel Ashton- IGTN Caribbean. Wide publication. Jan, 2008.

A case study from the EU: Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers fighting for their Rights in the Netherlands. Edited by Amandine Bach and Karina Hof, in collaboration with the Dutch Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers (CFMW).Wide publication. Jan, 2008.

A case study from Latin America: The Movement of Agricultural Women in Struggle (MMAL) in Argentina. Edited by Norma Sanchís and Agustina Pérez Rial from IGTN Latin America - LAGTN. Wide publication. Jan, 2008.

A case study from Eastern Europe: The fight of a female worker in the supermarket chain Biedronka in Poland. Edited by Anita Seibert, Karat Coalition. Wide publication. Jan, 2008.

A case study from Africa: Shea butter production in Burkina Faso. Edited by Sirra Horeja Ndow from NAWE (Network African Women Economists) and IGTN Africa. Wide publication. Jan, 2008.

A case study from the Middle East: Rural women cooperatives challenge patriarchal market institutions in Lebanon. Edited by Lina Abou Habib from CRTDA and IGTN Middle East. Wide publication. Jan, 2008.

A workshop during the III International Training of Trainers - TOT in Economic Literacy: _Popular economic literacy training from gender perspective: training of Trainers _ held in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, November, 2006.