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Non-standard forms of employment – including temporary work, part-time work, temporary agency work and other multi-party employment arrangements, disguised employment relationships and dependent self-employment – have become a contemporary feature of labour markets the world over. This report...
WIEGO’s activities during 2015 and 2016, as detailed in this Annual Report, illustrate how WIEGO works: to generate knowledge for and build the capacity of informal workers and their organizations to enable them to engage efectively in local and global advocacy.
By Carlin Carr WIEGO’s newly appointed Organizing and Representation Director Jane Barrett recently returned from a trip to Tanzania where she visited the Mchikichini Market in Dar es Salaam. The majority of traders in the market are women who sell locally produced cloth or home-produced clothes...
WIEGO's November 2016 Newsletter for Membership-Based Organizations of Informal Workers Read the newsletter in English . Leer el boletín en español . Lire cette lettre d'information en français .
This newsletter from the International Institute for Environment and Development details IIED's participation at the 2016 UNFCCC climate change summit in Marrakech (COP22). Another issue is available from the second week of COP22 .
The Birdsall House Conference Series on Women seeks to identify and bring attention to leading research and scholarly findings on women’s empowerment in the fields of development economics, behavioral economics, and political economy. Learn more here
Presentation by Martha Chen (WIEGO/Harvard Univerity) for the lunch seminar on the informal economy and inclusive economic growth at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 27 October 2016.
Since 2013, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) in partnership with the Global Labour Institute has been supporting unions in organising and representing informal transport workers across the world, as part of the ITF Informal Transport Workers Project. This evaluation report...
This case study attempts to assess the overall impact of the project element: Economic and Employment Rights: Advancing Domestic Workers’ Leadership including the achievements, outcomes and critical success factors. The case study is based on annual reports of the programme, interviews with...
This case study provides an overview of the progress towards building a global movement of home-based workers during the period 2012-2015. The case study begins by providing a short summary of the model of intervention and theory of change and continues with a summary, by region, of project...
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.