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Engaging in Global Agenda-setting Processes For example, in 2016, we participated in the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel ( UN HLP ) for Women’s Economic Empowerment, which was created to define an actionable agenda for improving economic outcomes for women in the context of the...
A conceptual framework, developed in WIEGO’s early years, posed the core question that continues to drive the Social Protection Programme: Under what circumstances can which kind of workers in the informal economy (especially poorer working women) secure access to what core measures of provision...
An Examination of Social Protection for Informal Workers in Global Value Chains Working with the ILO and World Bank, WIEGO used value chain analysis as a medium to explore social protection—a world first, we believe. We commissioned comparative case studies on risks and access to social protection...
The Inclusive Cities Project: UPP was key to implementing a multi-country project that ran from 2008-14 with partners from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Learn more. Building Inclusive Cities: Highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project , reflects impacts of the project. Informal Economy...
In addition to our programmes and projects, WIEGO undertakes a range of special initiatives, primarily focused on advancing research and expanding dialogue on the informal economy. These are designed and implemented in collaboration with members or partners from WIEGO’s constituent groups...
WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference In its first two decades, WIEGO has been at the forefront of developing new concepts and methods for understanding and measuring the informal economy. To mark WIEGO’s 20th Anniversary, and to identify new paths for research and thinking on the informal...
Over the past two decades, WIEGO has been at the forefront of developing new concepts and methods for understanding and measuring the informal economy. To mark WIEGO’s 20th Anniversary, and to identify new paths for research and thinking on the informal economy, the WIEGO Network held a research...
The conference was organized into ten sessions (view agenda here ). Prior to each session, participating scholars prepared notes on the session topic. During the session, some of the scholars gave visual presentations. Notes and presentations from each session can be accessed below. Continue to...
Exposure Dialogue Programmes (EDPs) allow researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields to experience firsthand the challenges workers in informal employment face. Guests live and work alongside their hosts for a period of days. After the exposure, both guests and hosts reflect on the...
From 2004 - 2011, WIEGO co-organized a series of Exposures and Dialogues with Cornell University and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India. The initiative promoted a dialogue between mainstream economists from Cornell, activists from SEWA, and researchers from the WIEGO Network. At...
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.