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External Blog Posts/Op Eds Udadisi – Stop Violence Against Domestic Workers This blog post is by Leila Sheikh, a journalist who writes about domestic workers and violence against them. Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds Be Waste Wise – Sonia Dias on the Informal Economy of Waste Pickers This blog post is an interview with Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Waste Sector Specialist. Here Sonia shares information from the Informal Economy... Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds Why measuring women’s informal employment is both feasible and desirable This blog by Marty Chen and Joann Vanek was the third in a blog series (and twitter handle) Deliver 2030, facilitated by the Overseas Development... Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds Out of the Shadows A blog written by Jenna Harvey while she was a Fulbright student in 2013-2014. Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds GlobalRec-Will Waste Pickers in Turkey Join the Unemployed Army? This blog post was written by Serter Oran, a research fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Ankara, Turkey. Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds Make Every Woman Count This blog post, “Does Cascading Training in Development Work?” was written by WIEGO’s Global Trade Program Director, Elaine... Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds Informal Women Workers Globally: Breaking Through the ‘Concrete Canopy’ By Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen We are at a turning point in the global economy including “jobless growth” partly due to technological change as well... Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds Planarchie: How street vendors and urban planners can work together This blog post is by Sally Roever, WIEGO’s Urban Research Director. This is part of a series of articles on urban livelihoods focused... Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds Citiscope – The New Urban Agenda must prompt planners to recognize informal labour Urban informal workers saw major gains in 2015, but these need to be consolidated at Habitat III.This blog post by WIEGO’s International... Read More External Blog Posts/Op Eds AeT – Workplace safety with informal workers: Be safe with us This blog post, about The Phephanathi Project, is written by Laura Alfers and Tasmi Quazi. Read More First Prev 1 2 3 ... Next Last
Udadisi – Stop Violence Against Domestic Workers This blog post is by Leila Sheikh, a journalist who writes about domestic workers and violence against them. Read More
Be Waste Wise – Sonia Dias on the Informal Economy of Waste Pickers This blog post is an interview with Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Waste Sector Specialist. Here Sonia shares information from the Informal Economy... Read More
Why measuring women’s informal employment is both feasible and desirable This blog by Marty Chen and Joann Vanek was the third in a blog series (and twitter handle) Deliver 2030, facilitated by the Overseas Development... Read More
Out of the Shadows A blog written by Jenna Harvey while she was a Fulbright student in 2013-2014. Read More
GlobalRec-Will Waste Pickers in Turkey Join the Unemployed Army? This blog post was written by Serter Oran, a research fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Ankara, Turkey. Read More
Make Every Woman Count This blog post, “Does Cascading Training in Development Work?” was written by WIEGO’s Global Trade Program Director, Elaine... Read More
Informal Women Workers Globally: Breaking Through the ‘Concrete Canopy’ By Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen We are at a turning point in the global economy including “jobless growth” partly due to technological change as well... Read More
Planarchie: How street vendors and urban planners can work together This blog post is by Sally Roever, WIEGO’s Urban Research Director. This is part of a series of articles on urban livelihoods focused... Read More
Citiscope – The New Urban Agenda must prompt planners to recognize informal labour Urban informal workers saw major gains in 2015, but these need to be consolidated at Habitat III.This blog post by WIEGO’s International... Read More
AeT – Workplace safety with informal workers: Be safe with us This blog post, about The Phephanathi Project, is written by Laura Alfers and Tasmi Quazi. Read More
