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Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their homes. In Delhi, there are numerous home-based workers who contribute immensely to the city’s economy, yet they remain invisible and unrecognised. This publication is a non-exhaustive mapping of home-based work...
Waste pickers play a critical role in managing Delhi’s growing solid waste problem. Despite their immense contributions, waste pickers face many challenges including lack of recognition, spaces of work, and social stigma, harassment and health hazards due to the nature of their work. This...
Suddenly relocated to the outskirts of Delhi in 2006, many of the city's urban poor faced an immense loss of livelihood, having to start again from scratch in the remote resettlement colony of Savda Ghevra. The story of resettlement here is also a tale of building back lives and livelihoods. This...
Investments in social protection are integral to economic recovery. As national governments, global financial institutions, donors and corporations consider economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider how to support the recovery of the 2 billion people around the world working...
This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (ACHPR) advisory opinion, which was delivered in response to a continental challenge against vagrancy laws on the grounds that they violate several...
Les investissements dans la protection sociale sont une partie intégrante de la reprise économique. Lorsque les gouvernements nationaux, les institutions financières mondiales, les bailleuse·eur·s de fonds et les entreprises envisagent une reprise économique après la pandémie de la COVID-19, ils...
Las inversiones en protección social son esenciales para la recuperación económica. A medida que los gobiernos nacionales, las instituciones financieras internacionales, donantes y corporaciones analizan la recuperación económica de la pandemia de la COVID-19, deben considerar cómo apoyar la...
The global networks of workers in the informal economy including the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, HomeNet International, International Domestic Workers Federation and StreetNet International participated in the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference, along with WIEGO and the Self...
Le système d’enregistrement est un outil essentiel pour étendre la protection sociale aux travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel. Dans cette note d'information, nous examinerons les expériences de mécanismes d’enregistrement qui ont fonctionné pour les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel dans cinq pays : l...
COVID-19 has exposed government inaction in extending dignity and fairness to informal economy workers in the most brutal way. Let’s take a look inside the policy toolbox governments have used to get workers through the COVID-19 crisis.
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.