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

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Towards Inclusion of South African Domestic Workers Under the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act

    This paper situates protection

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Organizing Waste Management Workers: The South African Experience

    This booklet describes how workers and employers have organized in South Africa’s waste management sector. The booklet is based on research...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Durban Street Trading By-laws, 1995

    This document outlines the by laws that govern street trading in Durban.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Mangaung Local Municipality Street Trading By-laws

    This document contains the street trading by-laws for Mangaung Municipality in the Free State.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Queenstown By-law for the Supervision and Control of Street Vendors, Pedlars and Hawkers, 2000.

    This doucment contains the by-law that was promulgated to facilitate the carrying on of Street Vending, Peddling and Hawking in Queenstown. ...

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Cleaning Up the Workplace: Occupational Health & Safety in Ghana

    Occupational Health and Safety is rarely considered in relation to informal sector workers, whose working conditions are largely invisible...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Récupération en Afrique, Volume 1.1

      Also available in English here.

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Weekly LEDNA Newsletter July 10 2013

    Electronic newsletter from LEDNA (Local Economic Development Network of Africa)

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  • Legal Instruments

    TUC (Ghana)/WIEGO Informal Economy Legal Project – Results from Legal Consultation Workshop

    Results of a strategy session on identifying and addressing laws impacting informal economy workers in Ghana

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Weekly LEDNA Newsletter March 28 2014

    As described on LEDNA’s website, LEDNA is:A friendly social network – a brand new way for Local Economic Development policy makers...

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