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Summary: This article focuses on how a group of women involuntarily displaced from Mumbai’s slums managed the resulting sizeable disruptions to their livelihoods. One hundred and twenty women—relocated to a resettlement site chosen by a nongovernmental organization (NGO)—are the primary data source...
Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor to take recourse to informal sources of livelihoods. Street vending is one such thriving source of self-employment across cities. This book delves into...
This is the second issue of "SEWA Rashtriya Patrika", SEWA’s Mouthpiece integrating women workers in national development. The theme of this issue is waste, and includes the following features: - New Solid Waste Management Rules in India - SEWA leads successful pilots for waste management by waste...
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. This work draws from preliminary ethnographic research with a fisherwomen’s association in Udupi City, located on the southwestern coast of India. It shows how women have managed to keep capital-rich fish shops away...
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. This paper continues the story of the Indian Alliance (the partnership of SPARC, Mahila Milan and the National Slum Dwellers’ Federation), as it designed and built housing with urban poor communities from 1986 to 1995...
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Ludhiana, the industrial hub of Punjab, North India, attracts a large number of migrants, many of whom face a range of exclusions. This study was undertaken to gather information on the availability of civic amenities...
This issue includes: News from SETU Africa including -- Visit to SEWA Bharat by the Gambia National Women’s Council and Women’s Bureau team -- Visit of the team from the Tanzanian High Commission, New Delhi
To mark inclusion of Waste pickers and Informal Waste Dealers in the recently released Solid & Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, an evening of readings from the book Bicycle Dreaming by Mridula Koshy interspersed by personal stories by waste pickers from various cities. (Video is in English and...
Advocacy Material Thousands of homeworkers contributed, directly or indirectly, to the demands contained in this Platform. The Platform draws on information gathered from home-based workers over many years, including the Delhi Declaration, adopted by over 100 delegates from 24 countries at the...
Des milliers de travailleurs à domicile sous-traités ont contribué, directement ou indirectement, aux revendications dressées dans cette plate-forme. Celle-ci se fonde sur les informations recueillies auprès des travailleurs à domicile, au fil de nombreuses années, y compris la Déclaration de Delhi...
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.