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These guidelines and standards for day-care centres in and around markets in Ghana were developed through the collaborative efforts of a reference group comprising parents of children in market-based day-care centres at Makola and Ga East, representatives of informal-trader organizations, child-care...
Master plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of most people, who live and work informally. In Delhi, previous master plans have been used to legally justify the displacement of poor communities from their homes...
The SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres across Ahmedabad, India. This case study documents how the cooperative responded to COVID-19 through community outreach and adapted child-care services to...
The Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos (MTE) - Excluded Workers Movement – in Argentina provides child-care services for its members, including waste pickers, community workers, garment workers, and street vendors. This case study documents how the Centros Infantiles de Recreación y Aprendizaje...
The 2020-2021 Annual Report highlights the main achievements of WIEGO’s work and shows how WIEGO programmes support different sectors of informal workers. It also zooms in on WIEGO's work together with organizations of informal workers during the pandemic.
On September 15, 2021, the Campaign for Quality Child Care for all Workers (India) organized a webinar to highlight the critical importance of childcare for the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and for enabling women workers to re-enter the workforce. This note presents the evidence on...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented public health and humanitarian crisis, marked by forced lockdowns, social distancing, and consequent loss of livelihoods. Informal women workers and their children have been hardest hit by the current situation. It has increased the care burden of the...
This policy brief is an outcome of a collaboration between WIEGO, UNICEF and the ILO in advocating for family-friendly policies to protect and ensure social protection and care systems that are good for children, good for women and good for the economy.
Key Points The public health measures taken to contain the pandemic coupled with the economic slowdown have significantly reduced women informal traders’ earnings across the three cities. With limited access to cash transfers and food relief, women informal traders must continue working in markets...
109th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) ‣ ILO final Statement ‣ Introduction ‣ Global Network Position Paper ‣ Notable events with WIEGO Partners present ‣ Interventions of our delegates ‣ More information ILO final Statement Workers take fight for social protection to ILC Summary...
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.