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The global informal recycling sector has come into focus as the base of the industrial value chain. With few exceptions, reports and articles have investigated the activities, condition, and position of informal enterprises and individuals, but have paid little attention to the context: the waste...
As associações e cooperativas de catadores são formadas a partir da situação de vulnerabilidade social dos seus membros. A maior parte dos catadores encontra dificuldades em conseguir empregos devido ao baixo grau de escolaridade, à idade avançada e a outros aspectos incompatíveis com as exigências...
This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou, Dakar, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Lima, Lomé, Niamey and Ouagadougou. It presents data on specific categories of urban informal workers – street vendors and waste...
Current urban planning education, supported by prevailing legislation, negatively impacts on the livelihoods and shelter options of the urban poor while serving formal economic (and elite) interests, resulting in socially and spatially exclusive urban environments. This paper outlines and critically...
Occupationally related injury and illness is a major, but largely under-explored, potential source of worker vulnerability. This study investigates the impact of occupational injury and illness on poverty and uses three case studies to examine possible interventions to reduce work-related risks in...
This paper interrogates the nature of the informal economy in Greater Buenos Aires. It takes advantage of the existence of a unique dataset, the Informal Labour Module (ILM), which was collected in 2005. In part, the ILM characterized informal employment, particularly through tackling the extent and...
This paper traces back the origins of the conceptual framework Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management, and examines how this concept was appropriated in Brazil to inform activism of membership-based organizations (MBOs) and NGOs in their fight towards greater integration of waste pickers in...
This paper analyzes domestic work, where the labour relationship is ill-regulated and difficult to control, and the conditions and characteristics make it hard to gather information needed to design and monitor appropriate regulations.
This paper considers whether national and local government budgets in the Philippines make a difference to informal economy workers – particularly home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers, the majority of whom are women. It looks into the extent of government budgetary support as well as...
This paper analyzes the national, regional and local budgeting allocations for programmes and services targeting (directly or indirectly) informal workers in Peru and in Metropolitan Lima for 2009. By discussing budget content, informal employment trends, and the reach of existing policies, it...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.