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Concept Note for High Level Panel at European Development Days, written by Henrik Huitfeldt of the European Commission and Marty Chen of the WIEGO Network. Objectives of the panel: This high-level panel of academics, policy-makers and practitioners aimed to take stock on the diversity in the...
Issue Highlights: 1. The IDWN has scheduled its Founding Congress for October 25-27, 2013, in Uruguay 2. Historic Workshop of DWs in Guinea: DWs at Guinee Parliament 3. SINTRASEDOM, Colombia held its 13th Congress 4. Organizing DWs in Thailand gains momentum 5. "Rate Card" sets minimum standards on...
Around the world, informal workers are forming cooperatives, pooling their energy, ideas and resources to gain mutual economic, political and social benefits. WIEGO supports this work through action-research projects, capacity-building among organizations, facilitating networking and solidarity, and...
SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit (known simply as SWaCH, which means “clean”) is a solid waste collection and handling cooperative. Initiated as a pilot project in 2005, it is the first cooperative wholly owned by self-employed waste pickers and waste collectors.
SEWA is a trade union of women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses, as more than 94 per cent of women in India’s labour force do. SEWA emerged in 1971 out of the women’s arm of the Textile Labourers’ Association. The organization’s first hurdle was to convince decision...
Recicla Ourinhos é uma cooperativa onde um número 80 de membros é contratado pelo município para fornecer serviços de coleta, avaliação, melhoria, e comercialização de resíduos sólidos recicláveis na cidade brasileira de Ourinhos.
Recicla Ourinhos is a cooperative whose 80 members are contracted by the municipality to provide services for collection, assessment, improvement and commercialization of recyclable solid wastes in the Brazilian city of Ourinhos.
African smallholder farmers fought for the right to organize, and in the 1950s, were finally allowed to promote and register cooperatives for cash crops such as coffee. The Machakos Co-operative Union Ltd. (MCU) was established in the 1960s in Kenya. Its original aim was to market coffee for...
Renana Jhabvala, National Coordinator of SEWA and Chair of WIEGO, was the keynote speaker at the World Bank’s fourth Social Protection and Labor Learning Forum held in Hyderabad, India from October 30 to November 3, 2012. This blog entry is a summary of her remarks as keynote speaker.
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.