Child Care

Women in the gig economy: paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa

  This is the description provided by ODI: The gig economy is expanding globally, with exponential growth forecast in traditionally female-dominated...

Global Health at the Frontline-Community Health Worker Level

• November 10, 2019
• Women's Leadership in Global Health Conference
  Kigali, Rwanda

This panel at the Women’s Leadership in Global Health Conference, 2019, gave essential frontline health workers—who are usually women...

Four Key Points to Ensure Child Care Reaches the Poorest Working Women

This year’s World Day for Decent Work on October 7 calls for improved investment in the care economy, including child care. WIEGO’s Social...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

New Podcast Unpacks How Informal Workers are Fighting for Healthcare, Child Care and Safety at Work

Globally, 2-billion people work in the informal economy. They are some of the most vulnerable workers in the world, and they are the new...

Note on the proceedings of the Tripartite Meeting on The Construction Industry in the Twenty-First Century: Its Image, Employment Prospects and Skill Requirements

Measuring informal employment in Mexico

Seminar for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Cambridge, MA, 31 October – 1 November 2008

Social Protection and Inclusion: Experiences and Policy Issues

The transition from the informal to the formal economy

Report V(1) at 104th Session, 2015

An analytical framework and tool (‘InteRa’) for integrating the informal recycling sector in waste and resource management systems in developing countries

Abstract: In low- and middle-income developing countries, the informal (collection and) recycling sector (here abbreviated IRS) is an important,...