Public and Workplace Services

COVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities: Recovery Pathways Amidst Continued Crisis

This Working Paper reflects the findings from the longitudinal study of nearly 2,000 informal workers in 11 cities around the world. Surveys...

New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the MUPROSI Health Mutual in Togo

In Togo, workers in the informal economy (90.7% of the total workforce) are excluded from the state’s social protection provisions. In an...

New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the FIWON Cooperative Scheme in Nigeria

The FIWON cooperative, a wholly informal worker-driven collective with chapters in Lagos and Osun, facilitates access to insurance for its...

Waste Pickers Organize Into a Cooperative: Will Senegal Include Them in its Waste Management Plan?

Waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite have set up their own cooperative in an effort to be integrated into the new waste management model...

The Pandemic is Not Over

The rhetoric of an easing COVID-19 pandemic obscures the array of occupational health and safety risks that the world’s informal workers...

World Bank’s Push for Individual Savings Provides Little Protection for Crisis-hit Workers

A recently launched report by the World Bank that provides guidance on how to expand Social Protection for the Informal Economy in Africa...

Extending social protection for informal workers in Togo

Global Deal Conference

• April 6, 2022 - April 7, 2022
• Online

The Global Deal, in cooperation with Open Society Foundations, is organizing a virtual high-level conference in the afternoon of the 6th...

Social Protection for Self-Employed Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A rights-based assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis

Informal workers make up a large proportion of the “missing middle” in social protection – those who are not considered vulnerable enough...

Worker-led Social Protection Schemes Provide a Lifeline

Informal economy worker-led social protection schemes are certainly not a substitute for universal social protection, but they can play a...