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  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Improving the Physical Environment (1)

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

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  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive, experiences and insights from MHT’s work: Introduction and Documentation Framework

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

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  • Meenaben at work in her home Project

    Home as Workplace

    For an estimated 260 million home-based workers around the world, their home doubles as their workplace. Homes are also used as work or storage...

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  • Savda Ghevra timeline thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Building Savda Ghevra: A story of resettlement in Delhi

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  • Home as place of work map thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Home as place of work: Locating the home-based workers of Delhi

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  • Policy Briefs

    Approaches to Basic Service Delivery for the Working Poor: Assessing the Impact of Mahila Housing Trust’s Parivartan Slum Upgrading Programme in Ahmedabad, India

    Increased urbanization in India has meant more poor people live in hazardous conditions, lacking access to even basic facilities and services....

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  • Technical Briefs

    Mixed-Use Zoning and Home-Based Production in India

    This technical brief critically assesses land-use zoning regulations, both generally and specifically in India, with particular reference...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

    The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India

    The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women....

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  • Policy Briefs

    Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study

    This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of...

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