Learning from the lives of poor people - an interview with Frances Lund
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 02/12/2015

Professor Frances Lund of WIEGO and the University of KwaZulu-Natal describes the rationale for WIEGO’s Exposure Dialogue Programmes organized in association with the Self-Employed Woman’s Association (SEWA) of India and Cornell University.

As part of the programme professional people including economists share the lives of poor informal workers such as street vendors and home-based workers, rising with them at 4.30 a.m. and entering into their lives until night-time. 

Lund illustrates how WIEGO’s programmes shift mind-sets in a profound way, and how the network can act as a bridge between workers, service deliverers, policymakers and development theorists.