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  • Research Reports

    La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle : récupératrice·eur·s de déchets en emploi informel à Dakar

    “La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle, une étude longitudinale menée dans 12 villes, sous la conduite de WIEGO, se propose...

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  • TV interview on COVID-19 impacts on informal workers in South Africa video thumbnail News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study March 17, 2021

    TV interview on lockdown’s impact on informal workers in South Africa

    WIEGO’s Urban Policies Research Director, Caroline Skinner, spoke with eNCA’s Uveka Rangappa on March 16 about the impact of...

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  • Romilla Chetty—a third-generation trader in Durban’s Warwick Junction, South Africa Worker Story

    Romilla Chetty, the first woman in her family to run the vendor business in South Africa

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  • Women getting water from distribution truck in Delhi, India Page

    Mujeres líderes

    English        Français   Para el Día Internacional de las Mujeres, WIEGO reunió las voces de mujeres líderes cuyas organizaciones dieron...

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  • Women getting water from distribution truck in Delhi, India Post
    Building Collective Power March 05, 2021

    Women Leaders

    Español        Français   For International Women’s Day, WIEGO amplified the voices of women leaders whose organizations stepped up...

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  • News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study February 23, 2021

    Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19

    This joint WIEGO and UN Women advocacy initiative gives an in-depth account of the experiences of women informal workers in South Africa...

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  • Research Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Informal Work in South Africa and COVID-19: Gendered Impacts and Priority Interventions

    In South Africa, informal workers in general, and women informal workers in particular, have been disproportionately hard hit by measures...

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  • Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa. Photo: Jane Barrett Project

    Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19

    Background There is widespread recognition, both internationally and in South Africa, that the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 have...

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