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Workers in the informal economy are playing an important role in climate change mitigation. Further, they usually leave a smaller carbon footprint than their formal counterparts. Yet informal workers and the informal economy are too often overlooked in climate change deliberations and green economy...
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Late 1960s Study in Accra, Ghana focus of study : low-income activities in Accra of unskilled migrants from Northern Ghana who could not find wage employment coined term “informal sector” key question: does the “reserve army of urban unemployed and underemployed” constitute a passive exploited...
Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal workers. WIEGO has produced analyses in South Africa, Liberia, Brazil, Pakistan, Peru and Philippines. Longer reports and briefs are available.
These basic facts are at the core of WIEGO's work around social protection. Informal is normal. Informal employment accounts for the majority (61%) of employment worldwide (as high as 89 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa and 88 per cent in southern Asia). Social protection is a right for all workers...
June 2012 Informal Workers and Allies Raised their Voices in Rio WIEGO and its allies participated in “RIO+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development” – and in the concurrent People’s Summit. In both arenas, we were striving to ensure the voices of informal workers were heard as world...
Workers' Lives is a series that profiles individual workers, putting a face to the realities of informal employment in different countries and contexts. These articles illuminate both working conditions and living environments, and how individual workers experience, first-hand, the impact of...
Membership-Based Organizations - The Heart of the Law & Informality Project In 2006 WIEGO instituted a global project on Law and the Informal Economy with a pro-poor and pro-women perspective. Pilot programmes ran in India and Columbia. In partnership with membership-based organizations worldwide...
Impact: Marginalized Workers Gain Healthcare Access A Health Policy Dialogue, facilitated by WIEGO in Accra in 2012, resulted in over 1,000 kayayei (head porters in Ghana) gain access to health care services through the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Kayayeis are young women...
It's has been more than two decades since the adoption of ILO's Home Work Convention (C177) of 1996, but only 10 countries have ratified it. C177 aims to promote and protect the rights of those who work at home, producing goods for local and/or global value chains. Sub-contracted by firms or or...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.