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รายงานสรุปฉบับนี้อภิปรายถึงประสบการณ์ของผู้ประกอบอาชีพอิสระที่เป็นผู้ประกันตนมาตรา 40 ผ่านการสนทนากลุ่ม (focus group discussion) กับผู้ทำการผลิตที่บ้าน ผู้ค้าหาบเร่แผงลอย และผู้ขับขี่รถจักรยานยนต์รับจ้างในกรุงเทพมหานคร ผู้เข้าร่วมส่วนใหญ่รายงานว่า...
In this briefing note we review the current debates on strategies, challenges and opportunities regarding registration in the context of social protection. In the first part, we will present the key concepts, approaches and debates on registration and situating it in the overall social protection...
The qualitative data collected in this Policy Brief show how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting workers in informal employment in Bangkok. Key points include: Livelihood challenges: Amid rising inflation, workers face supply and demand issues that impact their earnings. Many have resorted to...
COVID-19 and the steps taken by the Government to prevent its spread had significant adverse impacts on employment in India. This brief is based on data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey, an annual survey with provision for quarterly estimates conducted by the National Sample Survey Office of...
Principais conclusões: Experiências com eventos climáticos sérios : Muitas catadoras e catadores de materiais recicláveis (91%) vivenciaram, pelo menos, um evento relacionado às mudanças climáticas no ano anterior. 85% relataram ter experimentado calor anormal ou ondas de calor e 39% relataram ter...
From 2022 to 2023, WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, in collaboration with the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, led an exploratory climate-change mapping with waste pickers in Brazil. This Policy Brief presents the key findings, which include: Experiences of severe weather events...
This brief examines data on employment in Mexico and analyzes the changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the associated restrictions and economic downturn. Between the first quarters of 2020 and 2021, 2.1 million jobs were lost in Mexico, of which the vast majority were informal: 76 per cent...
Key Points The institutionalization of social dialogue is an important step towards more just regulation of informal vending, but alone it does not ensure that outcome. In addition to seeking venues for formal participation within state decisionmaking, street vendors’ organizations should maintain a...
Key Points Outworkers in Australia’s Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry are known to be particularly vulnerable to exploitation and unsafe working practices. Legislative reform took place between 2007 and 2013 when Australia had a progressive Labor government, culminating in the passage...
Challenges and strategies to increase social protection financing for workers in informal employment
This briefing note reviews the current debates about strategies to increase financing for social protection, which is essentially to enable the extension of coverage to workers in informal employment. The social protection financing gap is described and different approaches to close the gap are...
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.