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"SEWA has organized around 49,240 waste pickers and cleaners in Ahmedabad. SEWA is constantly trying modes to inclusively link our traditional waste pickers with the solid waste management system in our country, to lessen the impact of urbanization and privatization. For this, SEWA is working hands...
The SEWA Trade Committee wrote a tribute to Nohra Padilla, on her winning the Goldman Environmental Prize, 2013. The Trade Committee leaders said, “This achievement of Nohra ben will surely make our struggle more strong and powerful. We salute the efforts of Nohraben and her organization and want to...
This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. the paper investigates conditions promoting transformation by state-industry. Decomposition exercises find that both within and between adjustments for state-industries weakly reduce unorganized...
el objetivo del estudio es proporcionar evidencia confiable y bien fundamentada sobre la gama de fuerzas motoras, tanto positivas como negativas, que afectan las condiciones laborales en la economía informal a través del tiempo. El estudio coloca a los trabajadores informales y a sus organizaciones...
The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond to economic trends, urban policies and practices, value chain dynamics, and other economic and social forces. Learn more about the Informal Economy...
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo demostrar que el servicio de limpia es un servicio público cuya realización corresponde al Gobierno del Distrito Federal y a las delegaciones. Posteriormente, se establece de manera específica quiénes son las autoridades encargadas de la prestación de dicho...
SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal economy with the aim of both protecting worker's health and improving their productivity. This is an impact study of prototypes developed for 5 sectors (garment...
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.