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Blog post by Marty Chen on the OECD Development Matters blog highlighting the contributions of informal workers to African cities, and how supporting their livelihoods is a key pathway to development.
Late last year CGD launched Revisiting What Works: Women, Economic Empowerment and Smart Design, an update to the United Nations and ExxonMobil Foundation’s report Roadmap for Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment. The report identifies how development actors can make their interventions aimed at...
This blog post by Tanvi Jaluka, Megan O'Donnell and Mayra Buvinic includes a video clip of the Center for Global Development Birdsall House Conference on Women. In this clip, Marty Chen, WIEGO Network and Harvard University, makes the case for looking at the intersection of three identities of women...
AeT - Traders Present Infrastructure Needs to City Officials: A Milestone in Constructive Engagement
This blog post was written by Tasmi Quazi of AeT. "On 19 October 2016, trader leaders from three informal market districts that have been a part of the Kanyenathi Project presented their infrastructure needs to key city officials responsible for developing and managing informal trade, namely the...
Environmental experts have strongly argued against the adoption of “waste-to-energy” (WtE) technologies that burn municipal solid waste as this will drive up the generation of trash and undermine environmentally sound approaches to managing discards while producing highly toxic pollutants that can...
Blog post by Renu Singh of Young Lives about the UN HLP Consultation held at SEWA in August 2016.
Wenever Patrick Mason passes south through the city of Detroit and crosses over the Detroit River, he feels like he’s stepping onto another planet. Windsor, Ontario, is less than 2 miles away from Michigan’s largest urban center, but he says no two cities in the world are further apart.
Este blog fue escrito por Tania Espinosa Sánchez, Coordinadora para Latinoamérica del Programa de Leyes de WIEGO, y Consejera de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México.
The social protection of informal workers is a daunting—but not insurmountable—challenge in the Global South, and increasingly in the North. This blog post was written by WIEGO's Social Protection Programme Director, Gisèle Yasmeen, at the invitation of the organizers of the Asian Development Bank's...
This blog post was written by Serter Oran, a research fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Ankara, Turkey.
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.