Our Approach
Our Approach
GFI creates local economies that work for local stakeholders, instead of making local stakeholders work for a global economy. At GFI, we use a multi-stakeholder approach to engage with workers, local grassroots organizations, nonprofits, civil society, the private sector, and governments to develop a deeper understanding of the issues, generate solutions, and achieve progress.
Our Approach
Partner-led
Local partnerships are vital to creating sustainable change within global communities, and central to GFI’s approach. We engage with communities, nonprofits, the private sector, and governments to work collaboratively towards informed solutions that promote decent work, and fairness for local workers. It is through the success of our partnerships and our mission-driven focus that we hope to give the world’s marginalized communities the ability to succeed.
Our Approach
Multistakeholder Engagement
GFI designs and implements projects through a multistakeholder framework that incorporates different perspectives and emphasizes constructive partnerships between worker and civil society organizations, government, and the private sector. Through this model we build consensus around solutions to key challenges and implement programs that are sustainable and successful.
Our Approach
Rooted in the Economy
For the working poor, poverty is the problem, the rest is the result. Inequity, illiteracy, exploitation, hunger - these are conditions of economic failure and addressing them requires solutions rooted in the economy. GFI works to reduce vulnerability for working poor communities by removing technical, market, and policy barriers, and creating economic opportunities for informal workers to create more decent, sustainable and secure livelihoods.
GFI Priorities
Engage Government
Invest in Women
Build Capacity
Access to Markets
