SSE and Cooperatives

Communication Tools To Empower Women Home-Based Workers During COVID-19

WIEGO has partnered with HomeNet South Asia in a Comic Relief-supported project, to highlight the various tools and strategies being used...

Panorama dos impactos da pandemia COVID-19 na reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

Overview of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

Reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important, with waste pickers an essential part of Brazil’s economy, write Sonia Dias, Ricardo...

ILO COOP 100 Webinar III – Cooperatives for Climate Action

• July 3, 2020
• Online

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. CEST (GMT+2) The International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) is celebrated on the first Saturday of July every year. The...

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

Waste pickers’ cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations

Waste pickers make significant contributions to public health, sanitation, and the environment by promoting resource circulation and reducing...

Interactions between Workers’ Organizations and Workers in the Informal Economy: A Compendium of Practice

This Compendium demonstrates successful interactions by workers organizations with workers in the informal economy to reduce decent work...

March 1-5: Activities mark Int’l Waste Pickers’ Day

On March 1st, waste pickers around the globe will mark International Waste Pickers’ Day. Activities on that day and through the week...

Social Dialogue for the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy

Six case studies in this Global Deal thematic brief are based on research commissioned from WIEGO. Jane Barrett, Director of Organization...

Worker Rights in Informal Economies

In this article, contained in the volume Organising Precarious Workers in the Global South (Beyond Slavery/Open Democracy), Sally Roever...