The Global Fairness Initiative (GFI) promotes a more equitable, sustainable approach to economic development for the world's working poor by advancing fair wages, equal access to markets and balanced public policy to generate opportunity and end the cycle of poverty. The GFI approach: - Engage multiple players - workers, employers, and government - to find economic solutions and create economic opportunity. - Partner with locally established organizations to have the greatest impact and lasting results.- Leverage international networks of respected experts, political and social luminaries, trade and commerce officials, and business leaders to maximize the inputs and impacts of GFI programs. Since 2002, GFI has improved hundreds of thousands of lives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We have developed innovative programs to preserve and create jobs, empowered women by removing barriers to economic success, implemented fair wages and increased revenues and attracted domestic and foreign direct investment. GFI programs achieve success in 5 core areas: * Engage Government * Invest in Women Producers * Build Workforce Capacity * Improve Access to Markets * Bring Fairness to Free Trade
