Public and Workplace Services

Challenges and strategies to increase social protection financing for workers in informal employment

This briefing note reviews the current debates about strategies to increase financing for social protection, which is essentially to enable...

I Will Not Auction My Back! Lessons from Maharashtra’s Welfare Boards in Financing Social Protection for Informal Workers

India’s welfare boards have existed for more than half a century and represent a unique approach to ensuring the sustainable and fair financing...

Improving the Visibility of the Philippines’ Informal Workforce

In this interview, Lourdes Gula, President of PATAMABA, talks about the legacy of the organization of informal workers in the Philippines...

Collective Bargaining and Occupational Health and Safety for Informal Self-Employed Workers: Realizing ILO Recommendation 204

• June 27, 2023
• Warsaw, Poland

WIEGO will take part in the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) conference with a panel titled “Collective Bargaining and Occupational...

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...

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...

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!