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Technical Briefs Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based... Read More Working Papers Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore The bulk of Pakistan’s workforce is unorganized, and the data available do not depict the true picture, particularly of the number of women... Read More Working Papers The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Barriers to Access for Informal Workers Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it... Read More Resource Documents Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains: A Review of Literature Read More Policy Briefs Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.... Read More Policy Briefs Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia. It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales... Read More Statistical Briefs Statistics on Informal Employment in Ghana This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Ghana.The statistics are based on... Read More Statistical Briefs Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Brief This publication is a brief version of the 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture (ILO 2018). Read More Organizing Briefs The Mobilization of Bolivian Domestic Workers This brief describes the mobilization of domestic workers in Bolivia focusing particularly on the campaign that led to the approval of the... Read More Technical Briefs How to Assess Security of Tenure and Emulate Mortgages for Financing Semi-Formal Homes: Lessons from Mahila Housing SEWA Trust Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure... Read More First Prev ... 5 ... 14 15 16 ... Next Last
Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based... Read More
Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore The bulk of Pakistan’s workforce is unorganized, and the data available do not depict the true picture, particularly of the number of women... Read More
The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Barriers to Access for Informal Workers Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it... Read More
Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.... Read More
Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia. It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales... Read More
Statistics on Informal Employment in Ghana This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Ghana.The statistics are based on... Read More
Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Brief This publication is a brief version of the 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture (ILO 2018). Read More
The Mobilization of Bolivian Domestic Workers This brief describes the mobilization of domestic workers in Bolivia focusing particularly on the campaign that led to the approval of the... Read More
How to Assess Security of Tenure and Emulate Mortgages for Financing Semi-Formal Homes: Lessons from Mahila Housing SEWA Trust Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure... Read More
