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In March 2019, the WIEGO Delhi Focal City team organized “Women Speak – Workers’ Narrative”, hosted by the India Habitat Center. Seven informal workers—one construction worker, three home-based workers, a street vendor and a waste picker—told their stories in their own words to a large, rapt...
Introduction: Delhi Diary highlights reflections, insights and notes from the field from the Focal City Delhi (FCD) team in their ongoing work with informal workers. We capture these on a regular basis in order to provide a dynamic picture of the ways in which informal workers in Delhi are...
Introduction: Delhi Diary highlights reflections, insights and notes from the field from the Focal City Delhi (FCD) team in their ongoing work with informal workers. We capture these on a regular basis in order to provide a dynamic picture of the ways in which informal workers in Delhi are...
Historic Delhi Declaration of Home-Based Workers Approved "We, the members of 60 networks, associations and trade unions of home-based workers, together with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and researchers from 24 countries, met in New Delhi on the 8th and 9th of February 2015 at the Global...
Delhi Diary highlights reflections, insights and notes from the field from the Focal City Delhi (FCD) team in their ongoing work with informal workers. We capture these on a regular basis in order to provide a dynamic picture of the ways in which informal workers in Delhi are consistently struggling...
When India went into an abrupt lockdown on March 24, it triggered a high-profile humanitarian crisis as migrant workers scrambled to get home. Less visible was the impact of the lockdown on the large population of the working poor in India. More than 90 per cent of India's workforce is informal...
by Avi Singh Majithia May 4, 2020 (Photo: Bal Vikas Dhara staff distributing food ration kits to waste pickers in a Delhi Slum. Credit: Debendra Baral) Waste pickers historically have been essential workers in maintaining public health and hygiene in our cities. In this new time of COVID-19, the...
DELHI DIARY - April 2020 by Avi Singh Majithia In February 2020, WIEGO’s Focal Cities team met together in Delhi for a learning exchange and exposure visit. The Focal Cities teams, representing five cities across Latin America, West Africa and India, meet on an annual basis to facilitate knowledge...
COVID-19 and Delhi’s Waste Pickers By: Avi Majithia July 2020 Jagruti Devi is a waste picker and lives in the slums of Rangpuri Pahadi in Delhi. Her husband collects waste in the mornings and sells vegetables on a pushcart in the evenings, while Jagruti Devi segregates waste at home. Since the COVID...
Domestic work is a significant source of employment worldwide, accounting for 4 per cent of the labour force, with an estimated 67.1 million people employed in this occupation across 176 countries. Forty-one per cent of all domestic workers in the world are in the Asia Pacific region. Domestic work...
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.