Supporting Home as a Workplace: New Approaches to Planning and Design

World Bank’s Urban Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) invite you to the first in a three-part webinar series reflecting on innovations in urban informal economy management and support.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 260 million women and men globally produced goods or provided services from in or around their homes: 86% (224 million) were in developing and emerging countries, and 14% (35 million) in developed countries (Bonnet et al. 2020). This means that homes, especially across the Global South, frequently double up as places of work – where clothes and other products are made, food for sale is processed and cooked, a range of services are provided, and recyclable waste is sorted. Countless other workers, especially street vendors, store goods for sale at their homes. This has profound implications for how houses and settlements are designed but also how we plan cities.

This seminar, drawing on experiences from Delhi and Ahmedabad in India, will reflect on planning and design practices that have supported livelihood activities effectively.