WIEGO Blog

Bhubaneshwar, India, provides a unique model for integrating street vendors into cities’ future plans. Through a highly collaborative and inclusive design and development process, Bhubaneshwar became among India’s first cities to designate official vending zones and build fixed kiosks for vendors in targeted areas. A phased process allowed for testing and experimentation, ensuring the end result worked for all. This week, we take a look at this collaborative process and the four key components that can guide other cities.

A growing tax justice movement has been exposing the shadowy ways in which elites and large trans-national corporations often avoid paying their share of taxes — and the adverse effects this has on countries as a whole.

For 13 weeks, in 2017, the unthinkable happened for informal workers: they captivated audiences across Northern India by bringing the public inside their grueling work lives.