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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    Innovación y unidad: Cómo se están adaptando las personas trabajadoras en domicilio al mundo de la COVID-19

    Las personas trabajadoras en domicilio están entre las más invisibilizadas y descuidadas del mundo, y están demasiado familiarizadas con...

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    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...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    ZCIEA (Zimbabwe) Press Statement On The Destruction Of Vendors’ Stalls during COVID-19 Lockdown

    Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) is deeply saddened by the horrible, inhuman and ruthless destruction of vendors’...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Message from President of SAITA on the effects of COVID-19 to the informal business economy

    In an open letter, Rosheda Muller, President of South African Informal Traders Alliance (SAITA), has called on governments to support informal...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Ghana: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief details recent data on informal workers in Greater Accra, urban Ghana and Ghana overall, and looks at the data:

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  • Waste picker at Kpone landfill in Accra - credit Dean Saffron Mar 01 2020

    Activities in Accra Mark International Waste Pickers Day

    • March 1, 2020 - March 5, 2020
    • Accra, Ghana

    In Accra, the events marking International Waste Pickers Day (March 1st) will last all week. Waste pickers will hold a press conference,...

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  • Resource Documents

    Street Vendor Exclusion in “Modern” Market Planning: A Case Study from Kumasi, Ghana

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  • Dakar focus group for women street vendors Post
    Building Collective Power January 14, 2020

    Las mujeres pobres redefinen la forma de lograr la igualdad de género

    Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer, WIEGO va a presentar una serie de artículos durante este mes de marzo para profundizar en las...

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  • Dakar focus group for women street vendors Post
    Building Collective Power January 12, 2020

    L’égalité des sexes : les travailleuses pauvres redéfinissent la voie à suivre

    En cette Journée internationale de la femme, WIEGO lance une série d’un mois sur la vie des femmes travailleuses de l’économie informelle....

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  • Street vendor in Dakar Post
    Building Collective Power January 12, 2020

    Invisibilité à Dakar : les travailleuses de l’économie informelle s’affirment contre

    À Dakar, au Sénégal, les femmes font face, hier et aujourd’hui, à des inégalités économiques et sociales — de l’analphabétisme à la pauvreté,...

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