Pakistan

The Journey Towards Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

Home-based workers in Pakistan’s Sindh province achieved a historic victory with legislation that gives approximately 5 million home-based...

The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...

Open Letter to European Union Policymakers

As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding...

Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile

In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while...

Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study

This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-based Workers in Lahore, Pakistan

Invisible Workers, Visible Contribution. A Study of Home Based Workers in Five Sectors across South Asia

Background paper presented at Regional Policy Seminar on Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Policy...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-based Workers in Lahore, Pakistan

The study is designed to provide credible, grounded evidence of the range of driving forces, both positive and negative, that affect the...

Presupuesto y Economía Informal en Brasil, Pakistán, Perú y las Filipinas

Este documento reúne resultados de cuatro estudios de países sobre el análisis presupuestario de la economía informal.