WIEGO Co-hosts Workshop to Chart New Policy Pathways on Taxation & the Informal Economy in Africa Read More
Technical BriefsExtended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Waste PickersThis brief explores the challenges that waste pickers face with EPR and offers ideas for developing more inclusive EPR systems, based on... Read More Organizing BriefsSupporting Self‑Organization of Home‑Based Workers in Africa: Lessons LearnedThis organizing brief draws out the lessons of HBWs organizing in five countries; Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. It... Read More Research ReportsSEWA Sangini Cooperative: Providing Child Care for Women Informal Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in IndiaThe SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres... Read More Research ReportsCOVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities – Executive SummaryThe longitudinal multi-city study of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers finds that earnings are still far below their... Read More WIEGO Publication SeriesCOVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities: Recovery Pathways Amidst Continued CrisisThis Working Paper reflects the findings from the longitudinal study of nearly 2,000 informal workers in 11 cities around the world. Surveys... Read More Research ReportsMTE: Popular economy workers’ child-care facilities offer critical services during COVID-19 in ArgentinaThe Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos (MTE) – Excluded Workers Movement – in Argentina provides child-care services for its members,... Read More Resource DocumentsNew Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the MUPROSI Health Mutual in TogoIn Togo, workers in the informal economy (90.7% of the total workforce) are excluded from the state’s social protection provisions. In an... Read More Resource DocumentsNew Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the FIWON Cooperative Scheme in NigeriaThe FIWON cooperative, a wholly informal worker-driven collective with chapters in Lagos and Osun, facilitates access to insurance for its... Read More Statistical BriefsDomestic Workers in the World: A Statistical ProfileGlobally, there are almost 76 million domestic workers and 76 per cent are women. This Statistical Brief, prepared jointly by WIEGO and ILO,... Read More City/Country Level ReportsCOVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Bangkok, Thailand: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for RecoveryThis report presents the Bangkok findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study that was conducted... Read More First Prev ... 7 8 9 ... 18 ... Next Last
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Waste PickersThis brief explores the challenges that waste pickers face with EPR and offers ideas for developing more inclusive EPR systems, based on... Read More
Supporting Self‑Organization of Home‑Based Workers in Africa: Lessons LearnedThis organizing brief draws out the lessons of HBWs organizing in five countries; Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. It... Read More
SEWA Sangini Cooperative: Providing Child Care for Women Informal Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in IndiaThe SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres... Read More
COVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities – Executive SummaryThe longitudinal multi-city study of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers finds that earnings are still far below their... Read More
COVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities: Recovery Pathways Amidst Continued CrisisThis Working Paper reflects the findings from the longitudinal study of nearly 2,000 informal workers in 11 cities around the world. Surveys... Read More
MTE: Popular economy workers’ child-care facilities offer critical services during COVID-19 in ArgentinaThe Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos (MTE) – Excluded Workers Movement – in Argentina provides child-care services for its members,... Read More
New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the MUPROSI Health Mutual in TogoIn Togo, workers in the informal economy (90.7% of the total workforce) are excluded from the state’s social protection provisions. In an... Read More
New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the FIWON Cooperative Scheme in NigeriaThe FIWON cooperative, a wholly informal worker-driven collective with chapters in Lagos and Osun, facilitates access to insurance for its... Read More
Domestic Workers in the World: A Statistical ProfileGlobally, there are almost 76 million domestic workers and 76 per cent are women. This Statistical Brief, prepared jointly by WIEGO and ILO,... Read More
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Bangkok, Thailand: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for RecoveryThis report presents the Bangkok findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study that was conducted... Read More
