Africa

Accra: Market, Street Traders & Headload Porter’s Health & Safety

A survey undertaken in Accra, Ghana, investigated the main occupational health and access to healthcare challenges faced by market traders,...

Building a More Inclusive and Prosperous Dakar: Recommendations from Informal Workers

Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa: Lessons from the Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences (Hindi)

Summary of WIEGO Organizing Brief 5 (Hindi)

VIDEO: Melanie Samson (South Africa) – Including the Informal, Transforming the Public: Insights From Innovations in the Waste Sector

The Municipal Services Project conference held in April 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa brought together researchers, activists, labour,...

Manual for Street Vendors – South Africa

This manual was developed to help street vendors (informal traders) to understand their rights and to develop strategies for protecting and...

Business Act, 1991

This Act contains laws regarding the licensing and carrying on of businesses and shop hours in South Africa.

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Policy on Outdoor Advertising Control, Revision 3

This document serves as the Policy on Outdoor Advertising Control for the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) and also forms the basis...

National Small Business Act, 1996

This Act provides for the establishment of the National Small Business Council and the Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency and to provide...

StreetNet Report on Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy, laws and litigation strategies in the Street Vending Sector, 2007.

This document is a report on the StreetNet International meeting on collective bargaining, laws and litigation strategies held in Senegal...

Occupational Health and Safety & Domestic Work

This report contains findings from a four-year research project on occupational health and safety (OHS) and informal workers. The report...