Africa

Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...

Livelihood Centred Public Space Innovations

• June 6, 2023
• Online

Date: Tuesday June 6, 2023Time: 8:00 – 9:30 (EST)Duration: 90 minutesLanguage: English only

Webinar on Informal Economy Work and the Right to Work in Africa

• May 30, 2023
• Online

Date: Tuesday May 30, 2023Time: 12:00hrs – 14:00hrs (GMT); 15:00hrs – 17:00hrs (EAT); 14:00hrs – 16:00hrs (SAT)Duration: 2 hoursLanguages:...

StreetNet International/WIEGO African Regional Social Protection Conference

• June 21, 2023 - June 24, 2023
• Lagos, Nigeria

WIEGO and StreetNet International have been collaborating for three years on work on social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. This conference...

111th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC)

• June 5, 2023 - June 16, 2023
• ILO Headquarters
  Geneva

111th Session of the International Labour Conference: A just transition towards sustainable and inclusive economies, and labour protection The...

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...

For an Organization to Move, It Needs Women

In this interview, Gladys Mponda, Vice President of  the Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS), talks about the value of organizing,...

Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities

Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and...

Ngalo Buwereza Organization (NBO) National Workshop

• February 5, 2023 - February 7, 2023
• Kampala Kolping Hotel
  Kampala, Uganda

Date: Monday, 5 February, 2023Duration: 2 days