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New Delhi, India Photo by: Paula Bronstein - Getty Images/Reportage Co-hosted by WIEGO, SEWA and FORCES (Forum for creches and child care services), the workshop “Quality Childcare as a Right of All Workers: Collaborating for Action” took place in New Delhi on 12 September 2017. The objectives of...
Online event Harvard's South Asia Institute organized two webinars on home-based workers in India. WIEGO's International Coordinator, Marty Chen, was the subject expert, and the discussions were moderated by WIEGO's home-based workers specialist Shalini Sinha. The first webinar session, entitled "...
For 13 weeks, in 2017, the unthinkable happened for informal workers: they captivated audiences across Northern India by bringing the public inside their grueling work lives. Week after week, workers labouring as street vendors, waste pickers, domestic workers, construction workers, and home-based...
Without strong organizations, home-based workers cannot access information about employment opportunities, workers' rights, changing demands, new designs and techniques, or other information that would allow them to escape the pattern of very low and irregular earnings. Isolation, invisibility and...
Date: Tuesday April 11, 2023 Time: 8.00 – 9.15 AM Eastern Time Duration: 75 minutes Language: English World Bank’s Urban Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) invite you to the first in a three-part webinar...
Drawing on the experience of thousands of workers across 12 cities, WIEGO will share all-new global data from its IDRC-funded COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study.
Delhi Diary offers reflections, insights and notes from the field by the Focal City Delhi (FCD) team in their ongoing work with informal workers. We capture these on a regular basis to provide a dynamic picture of how informal workers in Delhi consistently struggle, resist and innovate against great...
In 2019, informal workers made some noise — in their home cities and at the highest global change-making bodies. They took to the streets, met with local officials and stood in front on the International Labour Organization in Geneva demanding to be seen, heard and, ultimately, treated with the...
WIEGO Team bios Programme Team Sally Roever International Coordinator See specialist profile Joann Vanek Senior Advisor, Statistics See specialist profile Françoise Carré Director, Statistics Programme See specialist profile Laura Alfers Director, Social Protection Programme See specialist profile...
Law shapes relations in public space, through a written and unwritten ‘script’ that tries to impose order, flow, and predictability in the way things run. Workers in informal employment come up against this script daily. Understanding how they navigate it is critical, if we are to support them...
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.