About GFI

GFI's Approach

GFI's Approach

Identify

When we start a project, we partner with a local organization that is closely linked with the working poor to identify problems and the solutions because we believe the poor have valuable insights to their challenges and should be equal partners in defining the project.

Design

Once we have identified the problem, we design an economic development project that integrates decent working conditions and access to opportunities for the working poor.

Implement

GFI designs and implements projects through a multi-stakeholder framework that celebrates different perspectives and emphasizes genuine partnerships between local organizations, government, and the private sector.

Spotlight: Tunisia Inclusive Labor Initiative (TILI)

GFI partnered with the Tunisian Association for Management and Social Stability (TAMSS) to identify risks associated with Tunisia’s informal sector and solutions for mitigating them.

TAMSS and GFI designed a program that built consensus around recommendations for transitioning Tunisia’s informal sector to the formal economy so that informal workers could benefit from social security and labor protections.

TAMSS and GFI implemented TILI in cooperation with the ILO, government ministries, local NGOs, municipal authorities, informal workers, and private sector businesses.

GFI’s Tunisia Country Director, Asma Ben Hassen Darragi, speaks with a member of the press after the first TILI conference in Tunis, Tunisia. (June 2013)