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Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.
Bangkok, Thailand On February 15, 2018, two representatives from the New York Street Vendor Project , Director Sean Basinski and Lei Bai, met with a group of Bangkok street vendors to exchange experiences and strategies. The group in Bangkok is beginning to organize in the context of the...
Municipalities across Peru have been employing a strategy to improve conditions for street vendors: support their movement from sellers on the sidewalks to more formal roofed markets. The transition is one that first began in Lima in the 1980s and, due to its perceived success, has been widely...
Cape Town, South Africa Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage The African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference took place from February 1st to 3rd, 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa. This event celebrated ACC's ten-year anniversary and drew together leading urban scholars and...
Accra, Ghana “Concerning the evictions we know we are a part of Accra, we pay taxes, some of us keep our receipts, we are doing our best but with evictions our policy makers don’t include us, they make their decisions without us and then come and chase us out. You will see ‘remove’ written on your...
Study shows informal workers in the Global South perceive regulations as being both positive and negative From street vending permits to permissions to collect waste from public spaces, regulating the vast and diverse informal workforce in cities in the Global South doesn’t have a simple solution...
Bangkok, Thailand Photo by: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Reportage HomeNet Thailand and WIEGO hosted the Street Vendors and Right to the City Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 7th 2017. This meeting convened leaders from four street vendor associations across Bangkok. Researchers, urban...
Una encuesta nacional de hogares, en este caso la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares de Perú, proporciona datos únicos sobre los vendedores ambulantes y los vendedores de mercado. Con base en esta encuesta, esta nota revisa las tendencias de venta ambulante y comercio informal en Lima y el Perú urbano...
Presentation from Session 7 of the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Resarch Conference - "Street Vendors: Politics and Possibilities for Inclusion."
From the abstract - "I review relevant literature on street trading management, and develop criteria for assessing the City of Cape Town’s street trading management approach. These criteria are linked to Lefebvre’s (1968) and Fainstein’s (2010) concepts of ‘the right to the city’ and ‘the just city’...
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.