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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Oi! Foi bom te ver lá na formação. Na sua turma também tinha catadores e catadoras do Brasil todo e que trabalhavam na rua ou galpão?

    Cartão-Memória Cata Saúde: Este cartão-memória reconta como foi o projeto de capacitação online Cata Saúde Viraliza a partir de um diálogo...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and Canners in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

    Canners represent many underserved populations in New York City, including racially or ethnically marginalized groups, undocumented immigrants,...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and Street Vendors in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

    Between 10,000 and 20,000 New Yorkers make their living selling food or merchandise on the city’s streets. This report presents the NYC Street...

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  • A street vendor at work in Mexico City, Mexico Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study November 30, 2021

    Are Unfounded Assumptions About the Informal Economy Undermining Universal Social Protection?

    It is fair to say that there are a number of legitimate and often complex challenges that governments face in expanding social protection...

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  • Webinar There is No Recovery Without Informal Workers: The View from 2021 Dec 08 2021

    There is No Recovery Without Informal Workers: The View from 2021

    • December 8, 2021
    • Online

    Drawing on the experience of thousands of workers across 12 cities, WIEGO will share all-new global data from its IDRC-funded COVID-19 Crisis...

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  • Worker's hands External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center

    Excerpt from the opinion piece, It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center by Darren Walker (president...

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  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary: The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers

    This summary provides a preliminary overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to affect the world’s more than 2 billion informal...

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  • Research Reports

    The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers — We Need an Inclusive Recovery for the Majority of the World’s Workforce

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy – Global Findings, Round 2 Policy Insights No. 8 In The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers...

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  • A motorcycle taxi driver waits for customers in Bangkok Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study November 22, 2021

    Informal Workers in Southeast Asia: Resourceless, yet Resourceful

    Informal workers dominate the region’s labor market in both urban and rural areas. More than half of the workforce in most Southeast Asian...

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  • Bigué Cissé, a waste picker at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite near Dakar, Senegal, has been collecting plastic recyclables for 16 years to support her family of eight, including three children. Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study November 11, 2021

    The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods

    The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...

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