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Exercise 1: Icebreaker This workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication providing a comprehensive toolkit for teachers, researchers and practitioners on gender in informal waste management systems. This exercise was used to introduce participants to one another at...
Exercise 2: Awareness of Gender Relations - Ping-pong Activity This workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication providing a comprehensive toolkit for teachers, researchers and practitioners on gender in informal waste management systems. This exercise was used to...
Exercise 3 - Autonomy Tree This workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication providing a comprehensive toolkit for teachers, researchers and practitioners on gender in informal waste management systems. This exercise was used to create an in-depth discussion on...
Exercise 4 - Discussing Gender Roles This workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication providing a comprehensive toolkit for teachers, researchers and practitioners on gender in informal waste management systems. This exercise was used to encourage reflection on...
Exercise 5 - Closing Session: Evaluating the Workshop This workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication providing a comprehensive toolkit for teachers, researchers and practitioners on gender in informal waste management systems. This exercise was used as a time to...
This blog post by Stephen Ibaraki is about WIEGO's incoming Social Protection Programme Director, Gisèle Yasmeen, who is also a Senior Fellow at UBC Institute of Asian Research.
This 20-minute video by WIEGO and partners, Asiye eTafuleni(AeT) in South Africa; HomeNet Thailand; and the Self-Employed Women's Association in India tells the stories of informal workers and the difficulties they face in accessing health services in their respective countries. It also presents...
Home-based workers are the most invisible of all informal workers, but they may also be the most numerous, with an estimated population of over 100 million around the world. The majority are women. In order to improve their situation they need to gain visibility and recognition as workers and...
Newsletter from WASTE Advisers on Urban Environment and Development. Featured in this issue: - a new series on sustainable financing on sanitation a short description of WASTE's successful workshop for small-scale recycling activities in Sierra Leone
In celebration of March 8 International Women's Day, this issue of IDWF's newsletter introduces some of their new leaders. También disponible en español
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.