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These publications by WIEGO researchers, members and partners contribute to existing knowledge on the informal economy. The series has four broad categories to satisfy different readers’ needs. WIEGO Publications Catalogue The WIEGO Publications Catalogue is a complete guide to WIEGO's Publication...
To overcome barriers, informal workers need to be organized and their organizations need to be legally recognized and officially represented in collective bargaining, policy-making and rule-setting processes. They need to be able to participate in the development of appropriate policies, laws and...
Much of urban informal employment around the world is found in four occupational groups: domestic workers, street vendors, waste pickers and home-based workers (including garment workers). WIEGO focuses its work on these groups.
Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker – is an honorary leader among waste pickers in the Mbeubeuss dumpsite, located 30 kilometres away from Dakar. Since 2000, Coura has been a member, and then leader...
ภาษาไทย Renu is the leader of the Muubaan Nakila Service Cooperative, which is active in her housing estate in Bangkok. Along with other leaders, she supports vendors and their families by helping distribute food relief, facilitating access to medical services, negotiating with local government on...
For International Women's Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic for a bottom-up approach to economic recovery. By building a crisis response based around mutual care, solidarity and advocacy strategies, they show us that policy...
WIEGO has worked closely with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the development of statistics on the informal economy. In 2018, this collaboration led to the ILO publication of the first-ever global estimates on the size of informal employment.
WIEGO’s MLE (Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation) Toolkit was developed to support WIEGO and our partners in specific aspects of our monitoring and learning processes. We hope they will be useful to other movements as well as monitoring and evaluation professionals, grant makers, managers, and...
In this global pandemic, WIEGO is focused on the potentially devastating consequences for the world’s two billion informal workers, who lack labour, social and health protections. We are striving to ensure that informal workers’ issues are addressed, providing information and advocacy tools and...
Pandemic adds to informal vendors' challenges Street vendors, market traders and market porters provide necessary goods and services, especially to those who must buy life’s necessities in very small quantities at affordable prices. Those who sell food—both fresh food and prepared food—are an...
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.