Kenya

Kenya National Alliance of Street Vendors and Informal Traders (KENASVIT)

Women Informal Traders and Child Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from Accra, Durban and Nakuru

Key Points The public health measures taken to contain the pandemic coupled with the economic slowdown have significantly reduced women informal...

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

Innovación y unidad: Cómo se están adaptando las personas trabajadoras en domicilio al mundo de la COVID-19

Las personas trabajadoras en domicilio están entre las más invisibilizadas y descuidadas del mundo, y están demasiado familiarizadas con...

Innovation et unité : Comment les travailleuse·eur·s à domicile s’adaptent au monde de la COVID-19

Les travailleurs à domicile sont parmi les travailleuse•eur•s les plus invisibles et les plus négligé•e•s du monde, et connaissent trop bien...

Promoting Women Workers’ Rights in African Horticulture: Overview of research into conditions on horticulture farms in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda

Introduction from the research paper:

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

Training for Work in the Informal Sector: New evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...

The Improvisers

A report about the number of Kenyan youth joining the informal economy because of the high unemployment rate in the country.   A related...