The Americas

Social Protection Brief 1 English

Social Protection Briefing Notes

WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO’s database of social...

Panorama dos impactos da pandemia COVID-19 na reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

Overview of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

Reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important, with waste pickers an essential part of Brazil’s economy, write Sonia Dias, Ricardo...

How are Peru’s street vendors facing COVID-19?

With a budget equivalent to 12% of its GDP, Peru put together the largest COVID-19 pandemic response package in Latin America. Its main intention...

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...

In COVID-19 Crisis, El Sindicato Unico de la Aguja (SUA) in Uruguay is making masks

Conversation held on April 23, 2020 between Flor de Liz Feijoo (SUA General Secretary) and Laura Morillo (ORP WIEGO). All images and videos...

Los Rifados de la Basura Campaign 

In Mexico City, thousands of people work daily keeping the city clean, collecting waste from residents and recycling reusable materials....