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"SEWA has organized around 49,240 waste pickers and cleaners in Ahmedabad. SEWA is constantly trying modes to inclusively link our traditional waste pickers with the solid waste management system in our country, to lessen the impact of urbanization and privatization. For this, SEWA is working hands...
The SEWA Trade Committee wrote a tribute to Nohra Padilla, on her winning the Goldman Environmental Prize, 2013. The Trade Committee leaders said, “This achievement of Nohra ben will surely make our struggle more strong and powerful. We salute the efforts of Nohraben and her organization and want to...
This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. the paper investigates conditions promoting transformation by state-industry. Decomposition exercises find that both within and between adjustments for state-industries weakly reduce unorganized...
The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond to economic trends, urban policies and practices, value chain dynamics, and other economic and social forces. Learn more about the Informal Economy...
SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal economy with the aim of both protecting worker's health and improving their productivity. This is an impact study of prototypes developed for 5 sectors (garment...
Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013.
This is the agenda for the two-day OHS national workshop hosted by SEWA in New Delhi, the culmination of the projects undertaken by SEWA and KKPKP over recent years that were supported by WIEGO.
In a guest blog post, Marty Chen, International Coordinator of the WIEGO Network and a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, recounts how one group in India is giving informal workers the know-how to become their own best legal advocates. Devi-ben at her vending spot. In January...
WIEGO's April 2013 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 . Ler o boletim em português .
This study is a photo essay/profile of barrow operators and traders that work in Warwick Junction, an informal trading market in downtown Durban, South Africa. The type of barrow operators in the study are those responsible for moving goods in, out and around the market to different trading sites...
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.