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The WIEGO Manifesto contains the principles behind WIEGO's approach to supporting informal workers and reducing poverty. "In most developing countries, well over half of the urban workforce is informal. Yet informal workers – and their livelihoods – tend to be ignored or excluded in city planning...
Major shifts in food prices as seen in past five years are significant events in people's lives, particularly for people on low incomes who can spend more than half their income on food. So in 2012 Oxfam GB and IDS started a four-year project with partners in ten countries to track its impacts...
Coordenação - Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Centro-Oeste Norte Sudeste Sul
From the Executive Summary: "A major barrier to provide social health protection in many low and middle-income countries is reaching informal workers and their families. Governments struggle to identify individuals, enrol them and collect premiums. These are functions that HMI [Health Microinsurance...
Household enterprises—usually one-person-operated tiny informal enterprises—are a rapidly growing source of employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in lower-income countries. Household enterprises tend to operate with limited interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique...
The Home-Based Workers’ Association in Bulgaria is an extraordinary example of how informal women workers have managed to build a strong democratic organization from the grassroots. With virtually no resources other than its voluntary leadership and the activism of its 35, 000 members, it has proved...
Discussion Paper No. 7597 Abstract: We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force participation stagnated at...
The tripartite structure of representatives of employers, workers and the government in the global production network lacks a key player, the buyers, who must be included to ensure just outcomes.
Abstract: The presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among vulnerable populations is a rarely discussed subject. Thus, the present cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to analyse the health conditions and access to public health services of 268 waste pickers in southern Brazil...
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.