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Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizing activities.
What is the Informal Economy? The informal economy is the diversified set of economic activities, enterprises, jobs, and workers that are not regulated or protected by the state. The concept originally applied to self-employment in small unregistered enterprises. It has been expanded to include wage...
WIEGO’s History The WIEGO Network was founded in 1997 by 10 activists, researchers, and development practitioners who shared a concern that the working poor in the informal economy, especially women, are not understood, valued, or supported in policy circles or by the international development...
WIEGO’s Work WIEGO supports, strengthens and connects organizations of the working poor to enable them to amplify their collective voice in the policy making and rule-setting bodies that affect their work and lives. WIEGO conducts and sponsors research and helps the development and improvement of...
WIEGO's work is done in concert with, and in support of, informal workers' organizations -- the local, national, regional and international organizations that are mobilizing members and advocating for better working conditions, for social and legal protections, and for the recognition of informal...
Statistics on the Informal Economy Analysis of informal employment and informal workers is a new area of statistical development. This section of the website examines the available data, as well as the concepts, definitions and methods that underpin this growing area of investigation. Statistical...
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COVID-19 Impact on Workers in the Informal Economy in Dakar The COVID-19 crisis has hit Dakar hard, and informal economy workers have been hit the hardest. Many of these workers –who represent more than 90 per cent of the labour force in Senegal– lost their livelihoods completely during the country...
Because their work requires them to be in others’ home—often multiple homes—and to come in close contact with individuals and items that may be carrying the virus, domestic workers are frontline workers in this pandemic, and at risk. Underlining that risk, a 63-year-old domestic worker in Rio de...
Home-based workers produce goods or services in or near their homes for local, domestic or global markets. They can be self-employed or subcontracted as industrial outworkers, and are vital to value chains around the world. Long invisible, home-based workers are organizing globally.
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.