Urban Planning and Design

How the Cost-of-Living Crisis Hurts Workers in Informal Employment in Bangkok, Thailand

The cost-of-living crisis is affecting workers in informal employment in Bangkok in many ways, including forcing their households to cut...

Impactos das mudanças climáticas e estratégias de adaptação: Experiências de catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis do Brasil

Principais conclusões: Experiências com eventos climáticos sérios: Muitas catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis (91%) vivenciaram,...

Weekly Markets in Delhi: A market that comes to you (Map)

The weekly markets of Delhi have historically served a critical economic and cultural function. Moving markets that are set up in different...

The Creation of Sustainable Cities Shouldn’t be Paid for by the Working Poor

Financing a sustainable urban future requires governments to shift their focus from taxing the informal economy to providing urban infrastructure,...

Climate-Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies: Waste Pickers’ Experiences from Brazil

From 2022 to 2023, WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, in collaboration with the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, led an exploratory...

Building Street Vendor Power in the Face of Repression in African Cities

Street vendors across the Global South are exposed to repeated cycles of evictions. In the African cities of Accra, Dakar and Durban, vendors...

Bokk Diom Mobilizes Against Partial Closure of Mbeubeuss Dumpsite in Dakar

The Association of Waste Pickers Bokk Diom demands that Senegal’s government keeps its promises of inclusion as the closure of West Africa’s...

Uganda’s Constitutional Court Holds Vagrancy Laws Unconstitutional

In a ground-breaking decision for street vendors and other informal workers, the Constitutional Court of Uganda found the country’s vagrancy...

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!