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June 2012 Informal Workers and Allies Raised their Voices in Rio WIEGO and its allies participated in “RIO+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development” – and in the concurrent People’s Summit. In both arenas, we were striving to ensure the voices of informal workers were heard as world...
Workers' Lives is a series that profiles individual workers, putting a face to the realities of informal employment in different countries and contexts. These articles illuminate both working conditions and living environments, and how individual workers experience, first-hand, the impact of...
Membership-Based Organizations - The Heart of the Law & Informality Project In 2006 WIEGO instituted a global project on Law and the Informal Economy with a pro-poor and pro-women perspective. Pilot programmes ran in India and Columbia. In partnership with membership-based organizations worldwide...
Impact: Marginalized Workers Gain Healthcare Access A Health Policy Dialogue, facilitated by WIEGO in Accra in 2012, resulted in over 1,000 kayayei (head porters in Ghana) gain access to health care services through the Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Kayayeis are young women...
It's has been more than two decades since the adoption of ILO's Home Work Convention (C177) of 1996, but only 10 countries have ratified it. C177 aims to promote and protect the rights of those who work at home, producing goods for local and/or global value chains. Sub-contracted by firms or or...
July 2019 English | en Español | en Français Subscribe to our Newsletters January 2019 English | en Español | en Français Also check out the MBO Newsletter for informal workers and their organizations and the Law & Informality newsletter Previous issues of the WIEGO Newsletter May 2018 English...
The RWCC Project Waste pickers worldwide contribute significantly in preventing ocean waste pollution by recycling and reusing materials that would otherwise end up in the environment. When better organized and formally integrated into recycling systems, waste pickers can increase their contribution...
WIEGO's Cuidar Project is shedding light on the health risks that waste pickers face—and helping find solutions. A joint initiative with waste picker cooperatives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the project is expanding and sharing health knowledge and enhancing waste pickers’ connections to local...
In 2007, the Latin America division of the World Bank brought out a publication entitled Informality: Exit and Exclusion co-authored by Guillermo Perry, William F. Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, and Jaime Saavedra. In this publication, the co-authors presented a holistic framework of the...
Composition Six-Segment Model by Status of Employment In the International Classification of Status of Employment , five statuses of employment – employer, employee, own account worker, unpaid contributing family worker, and member of producer cooperative – are defined by a) the type/degree of...
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.