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This report documents the results of a discussion to identify and address laws that impact the work of street vendors, kayayei (headload porters), and domestic workers.
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
Francie Lund from WIEGO presented "The Southern African model: The case of South Africa’s Old Age Pension and Child Support Grant" at the UNU-WIDER development conference in Hanoi. The conference "concentrated on the core 21st century development challenges in both low- and middle-income countries...
"A powerful case study, with important implications for urban planning and development in sub-Saharan Africa." (Garth Myers, Urban and International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford) "This book is a paradigm shift in the way we talk and write about poverty alleviation in marginalized communities."...
With lives and livelihoods governed by so many forces beyond their control, women coffee producers like Jenipher Wettaka know it takes more than a global movement to make lives and livelihoods better. It takes a cooperative spirit in their communities to cultivate change. This publication looks at...
The association between work and health has not been well explored in the context of economically developing countries, largely due to inadequate data. The objective of this study was to identify the association between informal wage work and health in South Africa using a newly available data set...
As described on LEDNA's website , LEDNA is: A friendly social network – a brand new way for Local Economic Development policy makers and practitioners to work together and learn from each other. This hub gives you access to free and impartial LED knowledge, resources and contacts of the highest...
This issue includes information about an ILO publication, Enterprise formalization: Fact or fiction? A quest for case studies . As described on LEDNA's website , LEDNA is: A friendly social network – a brand new way for Local Economic Development policy makers and practitioners to work together and...
This issue includes information about a LEDNA research paper by Stephen Kofi Diko, " Right to the City: Promoting Local Economic Development in the Phase of Increasing Informality ". As described on LEDNA's website , LEDNA is: A friendly social network – a brand new way for Local Economic...
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.