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This presentation is a summary of the main findings of an ILO-WIEGO study on the nature and role of cooperatives and other Social and Solidarity organizations for waste pickers and home-based workers. It was presented at an ILO seminar, “ Cooperation among workers in the informal economy ”, in...
This policy statement highlights the perspective of the Council of Wyre Forest on Street Trading
This is the annual report for 2016 for the International Domestic Workers' Federation.
This is the second newsletter of WIEGO's Law Programme. The newsletter includes highlights from the Law Programme's work in Africa, Latin America and Asia. It also includes a section on WIEGO's perspective on legal and policy inclusion of informal workers, and global advocacy and norm change...
this book shows how innovative organisational strategies are emerging in the Global South to bridge the widening divide between the formal and informal economy. The studies in this collection are predominantly ethnographic, drawing on the experiences of vulnerable workers through in-depth interviews...
This paper aims to assess whether the government budget in Liberia address the needs of informal workers, in particular street vendors, market traders and waste collectors in greater Monrovia. The paper describes the situation of these three groups of informal workers, and then explores whether...
The lecture emerges from the pertinent and yet often ignored role of law in the city. It takes an interdisciplinary approach which seeks to understand the positive and negative spatial ramifications of law in the way we inhabit, appropriate, and participate in the city, its spaces, its governance...
WIEGO's June 2017 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 .
Promotional materials from WIEGO’s Child Care Campaign, launched in 2017 by the Social Protection Programme. Learn more about the Child Care Campaign and access additional promotional materials in English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai and Zulu.
Promotional materials from WIEGO’s Child Care Campaign, launched in 2017 by the Social Protection Programme. Learn more about the Child Care Campaign and access additional promotional materials in English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai and Zulu.
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.