Public and Workplace Services

Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...

StreetNet International/WIEGO African Regional Social Protection Conference

• June 21, 2023 - June 24, 2023
• Lagos, Nigeria

WIEGO and StreetNet International have been collaborating for three years on work on social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. This conference...

Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 – The Domestic Workers’ Convention (Caribbean Region)

WIEGO and the IDWF partnered to write this toolkit to support IDWF affiliates in their efforts to make C189 real for domestic workers. The...

WIEGO in the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF)

• May 1, 2023 - May 6, 2023
• Dakar, Sénégal

Global Position Paper from Organizations of Workers in the Informal Economy ILC 110th Session – General discussion on Social and Solidarity...

World Day for Safety and Health at Work: Informal Workers’ Health in the Time of Climate Crisis

• April 27, 2023
• Online

Date: 27 April, 2023Time: 10.00 Eastern TimeDuration: 90 minutesLanguage: English only Register to attend!

Occupational Health and Safety Means Protecting Workers’ Health and Livelihoods

This World Day for Safety and Health at Work, WIEGO stands in solidarity with workers in informal employment across the globe who shoulder...

‘We Are Not Alone’: Waste Pickers Worldwide Unite

In this interview, Leonor Larraburu of the Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Economía Popular (UTEP) in Argentina tells us about...

Pune Waste Pickers’ Innovative Efforts to Fund the Extension of Decent Work and Social Protection

Taking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally...

Financing Universal Social Protection: The Relevance and Labour Market Impacts of Social Security Contributions

This paper brings together existing evidence on the impact of social security contributions on labour markets, insights from public finance...

For an Organization to Move, It Needs Women

In this interview, Gladys Mponda, Vice President of  the Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS), talks about the value of organizing,...