COVID-19 Crisis Study

SEWA Bharat examines Gendered Precarity in India’s Lockdown

SEWA Bharat – the All India Federation of Self-employed Women’s Associations – has published the results of a phone survey it conducted in...

Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and throughout Latin America

  Despite the troubling and false narrative that has taken hold in Peru and is spreading across Latin America about the role of informal...

Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and Latin America

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Innovation et unité : Comment les travailleuse·eur·s à domicile s’adaptent au monde de la COVID-19

Les travailleurs à domicile sont parmi les travailleuse•eur•s les plus invisibles et les plus négligé•e•s du monde, et connaissent trop bien...

Sustainability after COVID-19: Building gender equality into the response

• May 26, 2020
• Online

9:00 am EDT (GMT-4) – 10:30 a.m. WIEGO Waste Specialist Dr. Sonia M. Dias participated in a Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) webinar...

Three ways to contain COVID-19’s impact on informal women workers

Women workers in vulnerable employment have been the first to lose incomes and will be among the last to recover, write Rachel Moussié and...

Open Statement about Impacts of Covid 19 Pandemic on Home Based Workers in Uganda

A working group representing 19 home-based worker associations have joined together to send governments this statement. After detailing the...

World Bank-WIEGO Roundtable

• May 19, 2020
• Online

On May 19th, 2020, WIEGO Urban Policy specialists joined representatives from the World Bank for an exchange about informal workers in cities...

Domestic Workers: Fighting COVID-19 Together RESOURCES

Resources for domestic workers: Download and share these resources in Social Media. Ready to use on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Virtual Speaker Series: Gender and Power in COVID-19

• May 14, 2020
• Online

WIEGO’s Social Protection Director Laura Alfers joined a panel discussion as part of the WomenLift Health Gender & Power in COVID-19...