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Edwin Bett, WIEGO
African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could overcome some of the challenges they are facing and improve their livelihoods.
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WIEGO Blog
Soixante pour cent de la population occupée dans le monde est constituée de travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel. Leurs voix sont cruciales pour comprendre les épreuves, l’injustice et les possibilités de transformation résultant de la crise de la COVID-19.
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WIEGO Blog
Sixty per cent of the world’s workforce consists of informal workers. Their voices are crucial to unpack the hardship, injustice, and possibility for transformation as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
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WIEGO Blog
Mientras la pandemia se extendía por el mundo, el llamado a quedarse en casa recrudeció las desigualdades de nuestra sociedad. La crisis ha tenido un impacto devastador en los dos mil millones de trabajadorxs en empleo informal en el mundo. Queremos compartir las valiosas lecciones que aprendimos el año pasado, a raíz del trabajo que realizó WIEGO junto a lxs trabajadorxs en empleo informal a lo largo de la pandemia. Esperamos que sirvan para informar sobre cómo apoyar a dichxs trabajadorxs a lo largo del año venidero.
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WIEGO Blog
It has been a year like no other. As the pandemic encompassed large swathes of the world, calls for staying home starkly emphasized the inequalities in our society. The crisis has a devastating impact on the world’s two billion informal workers. Drawn from WIEGO’s work with informal workers throughout the pandemic, we share here the valuable lessons that we learnt this past year, so that they may inform how workers are supported in the year to come.