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This is a report from SEWA on their exposure visit to Brazil.
This issue includes: News from SETU Africa Exposure visit of SEWA team to Ethiopia Voices from Africa WISE got an award from Addis Ababa city administration Happenings at SEWA SEWA Bharat Youth Programme: Girls moving forward to touch the sky - A campaign for adolescent girls organised by SEWA...
This issue includes: Voices from Africa WISE’s pension scheme News from SETU Africa: Ethiopian Embassy team visited SEWA Happenings at Sewa: Sewa’s Health and Child Care Programmes
The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #80: “Documenting the Lack of Labour Rights in India’s Construction Sector”. This Development Viewpoint draws on research conducted in Delhi and Shanghai by the ESRC-DFID Research Project...
Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure insecurity. MHT has developed innovative mechanisms for screening the security of tenure of properties outside of the conventional housing finance space. Further...
Development Viewpoint, No. 79
Development Viewpoint, No. 81
Abstract: This paper re-visits the notions of work and empowerment under the overarching framework of gender, in the city of Mumbai. By examining the gender dimension of informal work, the current work not only extends the sociological literature on labor, but also teases out the challenges...
The Municipal Services Project conference held in April 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa brought together researchers, activists, labour, development practitioners and policy makers from around the world working to promote progressive public services, with an emphasis on health, water and electricity...
Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings out the interlinkages between urban politics and indigeneity as an entitlement regime. Once boundaries are operationalised on the basis of territorial belonging...
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.