Our achievements

Women Working Worldwide "continues to punch above its weight through tactically working with other NGOs and collaborative project working with partners."

Overall, Women Working Worldwide's work proved that "a woman-led project and advocacy focus produces lasting results that benefit women workers and tackle their particular problems."

Oxfam Novib, 2012

In the last five years, we have reached more than 80,000 workers in the value chains of flowers and garments, and built the capacity of more than 2,500 trainers across Africa and Asia to address the following issues:

COVID-19 and gender
Gender Based Violence
Tackling sexual harassment in the workplace
(Gendered) Occupational Health and Safety
Labour legislation in partner countries
Living wages
Women’s rights as human rights
Negotiation training
Campaigning communications

Our programmes and advocacy activities in supplier countries have delivered a wide range of tangible improvements for women workers, including:

Increased confidence among women to express their views in the workplace
Helping 5,000 women workers convert to permanent contracts
Improved access for women to new savings and credit schemes
Increased protection from sexual harassment, through raising workers’, supervisors’ and managers’ awareness and introducing new policies on farms
A 12-25% pay rise benefiting workers in more than 30 workplaces
Payment for overtime and reduction of forced overtime
Improved access to protective equipment and medical care