India

Waste Pickers and EPR in India

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) transfers the responsibility of waste management from municipal authorities to the producers of the...

Supporting Home as a Workplace: New Approaches to Planning and Design

• April 11, 2023
• Online

Date: Tuesday April 11, 2023Time: 8.00 – 9.15 AM Eastern TimeDuration: 75 minutesLanguage: English

Pune Waste Pickers’ Innovative Efforts to Fund the Extension of Decent Work and Social Protection

Taking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally...

Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities

Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and...

Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact, Recovery and Resilience in Six Cities

Key Findings Domestic workers’ ability to work and earn an income were negatively impacted throughout the pandemic and particularly at the...

Mirai Chatterjee pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt

Many an epithet has been used to celebrate her—the gentle revolutionary, the Mahatma of “shramjeevi” (working) women, and more. For us, her SEWA (Self-Employed...

Renana Jhabvala pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt

Ela Ramesh Bhatt has been called a gentle revolutionary. Both her ideas and her actions were revolutionary. She gave the world the path with...

Home-Based Work during the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities

In both mid-2020 and mid-2021, WIEGO assessed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers and their households,...

Subverting Master Planning to Advance Informal Worker Interests: Lessons from Delhi

Heeding the United Nations call to share transformative approaches to local action on World Cities Day, Focal Cities Coordinator Jenna Harvey...

Claiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in Delhi

Master plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of...