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This members-only site has been developed by WIEGO to assist membership-based organizations (MBOs) of informal workers in their efforts to raise funds while strengthening their administrative and financial management, and establishing more effective planning, monitoring and evaluation systems. Tools...
This table (Excel spreadsheet) contains the data WIEGO commissioned on informal employment and its workers in 19 cities. WIEGO now produces more comprehensive data on cities in its Statistical Brief Series . The advocates and policymakers who work with WIEGO need statistics on informal workers to...
The WAW database is the sum of several existing databases with information about waste picker organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It was a multi-year process commissioned by WIEGO from 2009 to 2013. It is an ongoing effort to merge all the different datasets into one comprehensible and...
La base de datos REM es la suma de distintas base de datos con información sobre organizaciones de recicladores en Africa, Asia y America Latina. Ha sido un proceso de varios años, encargado por WIEGO desde 2009 hasta 2013. Ahora se ha transformado en un esfuerzo de combinar todas las series de...
A base de dados WAW foi consolidada através de várias pesquisas e dados existentes sobre catadores de materiais recicláveis na África, Ásia e América Latina. O processo de consolidação da base dados foi coordenado pela WIEGO entre 2009 e 2013. Porém, é importante ressaltar que concentrar todas as...
A database on informal employment in more than 40 countries worldwide was produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in partnership with Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).
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.