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Over the past two decades, WIEGO has been at the forefront of developing new concepts and methods for understanding and measuring the informal economy. To mark WIEGO’s 20th Anniversary, and to identify new paths for research and thinking on the informal economy, the WIEGO Network held a research...
The conference was organized into ten sessions (view agenda here ). Prior to each session, participating scholars prepared notes on the session topic. During the session, some of the scholars gave visual presentations. Notes and presentations from each session can be accessed below. Continue to...
Exposure Dialogue Programmes (EDPs) allow researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields to experience firsthand the challenges workers in informal employment face. Guests live and work alongside their hosts for a period of days. After the exposure, both guests and hosts reflect on the...
From 2004 - 2011, WIEGO co-organized a series of Exposures and Dialogues with Cornell University and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India. The initiative promoted a dialogue between mainstream economists from Cornell, activists from SEWA, and researchers from the WIEGO Network. At...
In addition to the policy dialogues organized under our core programmes and focal cities initiatives, WIEGO organizes other policies dialogues. A policy dialogue involves people from different interest groups sitting together to focus on an issue in which they have a mutual, but not necessarily...
WIEGO’s Focal City initiative supports informal worker organizations to secure more inclusive laws and regulations, improved urban services and a voice in urban planning and policy-making processes. WIEGO has five Focal Cities sites: in Accra , Ghana; Dakar , Senegal; Delhi , India; Mexico City...
COVID-19 Impact on Informal Workers in Accra The COVID-19 crisis has hit Accra hard, and informal workers have been hit the hardest. Many of these workers lost their livelihoods completely during the country’s initial lockdown and since then, earnings have been slow to recover. WIEGO’s team in Accra...
In March 2013, a Policy Dialogue was held in Accra, Ghana between informal street traders and officials from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and the Ga East Municipal Assembly. Facilitated by WIEGO, the policy dialogue centred on the theme Ensuring Optimal Involvement of the Urban Informal...
View this page in English. Dans la capitale du Sénégal, Dakar, les travailleurs et travailleuses de l’informel font partie intégrante de l’économie urbaine. Tous les jours, les vendeurs et vendeuses du marché historique de Sandaga offrent aux citadins des produits à bas prix; les blanchisseuses...
COVID-19 Situation and Activity On March 24, with just four hours notice, India went into a 21-day lockdown. The abrupt lockdown triggered a massive humanitarian and migration crisis as workers scrambled to get home. The lockdown has led to a massive loss of livelihoods with no informal workers 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.