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

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Charter for a Street-Trading Friendly African City: Steps that African Mayors can take to embrace inclusive and sustainable street trading management

    Informal trading is a prevalent reality in African cities, still marked by high degree of poverty, unemployment and inequality, and affected...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Position Statement from the Women Cross Border Traders Forum on Mainstreaming Gender in the SADC Regional Trade Policy and the Tripartite Free Trade Area Policy Framework

    We, the Women representatives of Informal Cross Border Trader’s Associations (ICBTs) drawn from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Wiego in the World: Africa

    This document reviews WIEGO’s work in Africa, including in the areas of knowledge generation, capacity building and advocacy. It also...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 — The Domestic Workers’ Convention

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  • Toolkits and Guides

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

    Summary of WIEGO Organizing Brief 5 (English)

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters
  • Legal Instruments

    Street Vendors’ Laws and Legal Issues in South Africa

    Street vendors have few legal protections in South Africa. As they are not employees the basic rights of labour law do not apply to them...

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Empowering Market Traders in Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa: Summary

    This impact case study summary gives a preview of the work done under WIEGO’s Inclusive Cities project with market traders in Durban’s...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Eastern Metropolitan Local Council of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council Street Trading By-laws, 1998

    This document contains the street trading by-laws that have been adopted by the Eastern Metropolitan Local Council.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Mossel Bay Municipality Street Trading By-laws

    This by-law is promulgated by the Mossel Bay Municipality to provide for procedures, methods and practices to regulate and control street...

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