Africa

Consultation on Public Space and Inclusive Management of Street Trade

• March 29, 2018

Dakar, Senegal

Leadership training for Gauteng Province in Johannesburg

• August 19, 2017 - August 20, 2017
• Johannesburg, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa   Photo by: Jonathan Torgovnik, Getty Images/Reportage   A leadership training session took place on August 19th...

Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Street Vendor Evictions in Accra, Ghana

• January 31, 2018

Accra, Ghana

Workshop on the Implementation of ILO Recommendation 204 in South Africa

• May 23, 2017 - May 25, 2017

Johannesburg, South Africa

Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real

• May 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019

The “Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real” workshop was held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The event, hosted by WIEGO...

FES-Zambia, WIEGO/ITUC- Africa/ALRN Rights-Based Social Protection Workshop

• October 8, 2018 - October 10, 2018

Lusaka, Zambia   “Social protection is about providing for those in society unable to provide for themselves, the poor, the incapacitated,...

61% of the world’s workers still fighting for 8-hour day

133 years after the Chicago working-time strike that gave rise to May Day, 2-billion workers continue to fall outside regulations for working...

New Project Explores How Waste Pickers Can Help Solve the Ocean Plastics Waste Crisis

A Q&A with Taylor Cass Talbott It’s hard to miss the shocking images of heaping plastic floating in the middle of the world’s oceans...

Women Informal Workers Challenge Invisibility in Dakar

In Dakar, Senegal, women continue to face economic and social inequities — from illiteracy to poverty to gender discrimination — but it’s...

Q&A: Feeding cities: Informal retailers play crucial role in urban food security

Supermarkets have spread rapidly across the Global South, but what implications does this growth have on informal food retailers and the...