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WIEGO's Initiative Health is crucial for workers in the informal economy because their income relies on their ability to work. However, often they face multiple barriers in accessing the services they need to maintain good health, or to cope with injury and illness. Health services do not account...
WIEGO and our partners are listening long and hard to informal workers through our multi-city study: COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy. Their voices are helping us unpack the hardship, injustice, and possibility for transformation within our economic system, laid bare by COVID-19. The study...
The extension of social protection to informal workers is a major global policy concern highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022-2023 WIEGO Annual Report The 2022-2023 Annual Report presents the details of WIEGO's 8th General Assembly. It outlines the objectives of our five-year strategic plan and underscores the significant milestones and main achievements accomplished in WIEGO's work. Additionally, the report provides...
The COVID-19 crisis has hit Mexico City hard, and informal workers have been hit the hardest. Many of these workers lost their livelihoods completely during the start of the crisis in 2020. Since then, earnings have been slow to recover and workers across sectors continue to face severe economic and...
The WIEGO Working Paper Series features research, particularly policy-relevant research, that makes a contribution to existing knowledge about the informal economy. The series includes statistical profiles of informal employment and critical analysis of data collection and classification methods...
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...
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.