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For an estimated 260 million home-based workers around the world, their home doubles as their workplace. Homes are also used as work or storage spaces for groups of workers who work mainly outside the home, including street vendors and waste pickers, as well as carpenters and masons. The homes-cum...
ภาษาไทย Renu is the leader of the Muubaan Nakila Service Cooperative, which is active in her housing estate in Bangkok. Along with other leaders, she supports vendors and their families by helping distribute food relief, facilitating access to medical services, negotiating with local government on...
Pandemic adds to informal vendors' challenges Street vendors, market traders and market porters provide necessary goods and services, especially to those who must buy life’s necessities in very small quantities at affordable prices. Those who sell food—both fresh food and prepared food—are an...
A WIEGO Network Global Solidarity Platform May 1, 2020 Platform (PDF) Download WhatsApp version and headers for Facebook and Twitter here Español Français Hindi Kiswahili Português русский Informal economy workers’ organizations across the global economy call on governments at all levels to partner...
Español Français Romilla Chetty—a third-generation trader in Durban’s Warwick Junction and the first woman in her family to run the business—is an advocate for the rights of market traders and street vendors. She sees her trading community as “one big family” and has served as the secretary for the...
Street vendors are an integral part of the world's urban economies, contributing to vibrant retail markets and providing an array of affordable, accessible goods and services to urban consumers. Street vending also provides a livelihood for those who have few employment options, including migrants...
By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for many other workers in the city’s massive informal economy. Announced on 24th March with just 4 hours’ notice, an empty city meant that the city’s vendors...
Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizing activities.
WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO's database of social protection responses to the pandemic, as well as the trends and changes in the Social Protection for Informal Workers landscape, in order to support movements in...
Our MBO (Membership-based Organization) Newsletter series has been revived, with a new format featuring shorter and more focused stories.
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.