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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Organization

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

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  • Resource Documents

    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...

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    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...

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    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...

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  • HBW in Uruguay sewing masks for COVID-19 Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 11, 2020

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    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:

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  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

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  • Research Reports

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

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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