Delhi Diary highlights reflections, insights and field notes from the Focal City Delhi (FCD) team in their ongoing work with informal workers. We capture these on a regular basis in order to provide a dynamic picture of the ways in which informal workers in Delhi are consistently struggling, resisting and innovating against great odds.
Delhi Diary Archives
The views expressed in the Delhi Diary represent those of the authors.
March 2021
- Building Connections During the Pandemic: The Role of Community Action Groups in Addressing Hunger and Relief
New Year's Message
Impact of COVID-19
- COVID-19 and Delhi’s Waste Pickers
- COVID-19 and Delhi’s Home-based Workers
- COVID-19 and Delhi’s Domestic Workers
- COVID-19 and Delhi’s Street Vendors
July 2020
- Impact of COVID-19 on Street Vendors in India: Status and Steps for Advocacy
- Rebuilding Lives in Resettlements: The Story of Savita Ben
April/May 2020
- Not just hunger but also safety: Relief for waste pickers during COVID-19
- Focal City Learning Meeting 2020: Different Cities, Common Goals
January 2020
- Street Vendors Act: Many roads to Implementation
- The Changing Waste Economy of Delhi and its Impact on Waste Pickers
October 2019
June - September 2019
- Celebration and Solidarity with Domestic Workers | Shalini Sinha
April & May 2019
- Town Vending Committees—An Opportunity for Worker Participation | Avi Singh Majithia
- Definitions Matter: Who is a Street Vendor and What is a Street? | Avi Singh Majithia
March 2019
- Master Plan of Delhi: Why do we need to engage with it? | March 7, 2019 | by Malavika Narayan
- Voices from the Margins: Waste Pickers and the Right to the City | March 1, 2019 | by Avi Singh Majithia
October - December 2018
- Maternity Benefits: Seek to Bring Together, Not Divide | November 29, 2018 | by Avi Singh Majithia
- Street Vendors Movement in India: The Need to Build Capacity—Now | November 15, 2018 | by Shalini Sinha
- Celebrating Home-based Workers Day: Shining Light on the Invisible Workforce of Delhi | October 25, 2018 | Shalini Sinha
- Giving Voice to the Voiceless: How a Radio Programme Empowered Women Informal Workers | October 11, 2018 | Shalini Sinha
August - September 2018
- Holistic Child Care: More than a dream | September 20, 2018 | by Avi Majithia
- Waste Samaritans: Revolutionizing waste digitally | August 31, 2018 | by Avi Majithia
- Umbrellas offer shelter in more ways than one | August 15, 2018 | by Avi Majithia
- Seeing Delhi's informal economy with fresh eyes | August 1, 2018 | by Shalini Sinha