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.
Creating “inclusive cities” is a hot topic right now. Habitat III has just wound up in Quito, Ecuador – the UN’s urban conference that brought together urban leaders from around the world – and the recently adopted New Urban Agenda sets forth a roadmap for creating a more just and sustainable urban world. How national and local governments will do this and what models they will follow is still a question – one for which WIEGO’s Inclusive Cities project may have some answers.
Gisèle Yasmeen, la nueva Directora de Protección social de WIEGO habla sobre el aumento de la visibilidad de las y los trabajadores en empleo informal
Tuvimos la oportunidad de hablar con la nueva Directora del programa de Protección social de WIEGO, la Doctora Gisèle Yasmeen, sobre algunas de las principales tendencias en dicho sector en la actualidad. Gisèle tomó el cargo en abril de 2016, sucediendo a Francie Lund, Directora y fundadora del programa.
Renana Jhabvala discusses the UN Secretary-General’s first-ever High-level Panel (UN HLP) for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Renana Jhabvala is a world-renowned expert on women in the informal economy. She serves as Chair of the WIEGO Board and has been working with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) since 1977. Currently, she is SEWA’s National Coordinator, as well as the Chairperson of SEWA Bank and SEWA Bharat.
WIEGO’s new social protection director, Gisèle Yasmeen, on the increasing visibility of informal workers
We had an opportunity to speak with WIEGO’s new Social Protection Programme Director, Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen, on some of the key trends happening in the sector today. Gisèle took over the position in April 2016 from Francie Lund, the programme’s founding director. Gisèle has done extensive research on micro- and small-scale enterprises in the food sector, particularly street food vendors.
Domestic workers represent a vast, hidden and essential workforce whose efforts inside private homes allow their employers to be more productive outside the home. In Johannesburg, South Africa, domestic work provides a major source of employment. But capturing the working lives of domestic workers is a difficult assignment—to see firsthand the workplace requires permission to enter a private home. Only employers who know they are fair will open the door to a camera and an interview.
