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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 impacts of the pandemic have exposed the large-scale vulnerabilities faced by workers in the informal economy, including the lack of adequate social protection coverage. Despite facing greater risks of falling into poverty than workers in the formal economy, informal workers are excluded from...
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...
This Working Paper reflects the findings from the longitudinal study of nearly 2,000 informal workers in 11 cities around the world. Surveys and in-depth interviews were conducted with domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and market traders, and waste pickers in mid-2020 and then...
The longitudinal multi-city study of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers finds that earnings are still far below their pre-pandemic levels.
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 rhetoric of an easing COVID-19 pandemic obscures the array of occupational health and safety risks that the world’s informal workers still face and that have accumulated during the pandemic.
This report presents the Bangkok findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study that was conducted in mid-2021 to assess how specific groups of informal workers and their households were experiencing COVID-19 resurgences and ongoing economic strains, and to...
วิกฤตโควิด19รอบสองและขอ้ มลู เศรษฐกิจนอกระบบในกรุงเทพไดเ้ปิดเผยใหเ้ห็นว่าช่วงกลางปี2563ซ่งึ เป็นช่วงเวลาของการเปิดประเทศรอบแรก(หลงัการระบาดของโควิด19)จนถึงกลางปี2564บรรดาลกูจา้ง ทางานบา้ น ผทู้ าการผลิตท่ีบา้ น ผขู้ บั ข่จี กั รยานยนตร์ บั จา้ ง หมอนวด ผคู้ า้ หาบเรแ่ ผงลอย และคนเก็บของ เก่า...
दिल्ली में अधिकांश कामगार असंगठित रूप से काम करते हैं और नवीनतम अनुमानों के अनुसार दिल्ली में क़रीब 49.2 लाख असंगठित कामगार हैं. यह रिपोर्ट WIEGO के नेतृत्व में की गई ' कोविड-19 संकट और असंगठित क्षेत्र ' स्टडी की दिल्ली शहर में हुई दूसरी दौर की जाँच - परिणामो को प्रस्तुत करती है. यह सर्वे मध्य-2021...
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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.