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Introduction: Delhi Diary highlights reflections, insights and notes from the field from the Focal City Delhi (FCD) team in their ongoing work with informal workers. We capture these on a regular basis in order to provide a dynamic picture of the ways in which informal workers in Delhi are...
The Workers’ Voices webinar series aims to provide a space for learning and exchange where membership-based organizations (MBO) and networks of informal workers can learn about: innovative policy advocacy and organizing strategies during the COVID-19 crisis; and positive policy responses and/or MBO...
Event invitation to book launch on May 28, 2018.
Home-based workers produce goods or services in or near their homes for local, domestic or global markets. They can be self-employed or subcontracted as industrial outworkers, and are vital to value chains around the world. Long invisible, home-based workers are organizing globally.
Heeding the United Nations call to share transformative approaches to local action on World Cities Day, Focal Cities Coordinator Jenna Harvey talked to Shalini Sinha and Avi Majithia of WIEGO’s Focal Cities Delhi team about their work to advance a more just and inclusive “people’s plan” in Delhi’s...
For its flagship GOLD Report, UCLG asked WIEGO for its expertise on the urban informal economy, with a focus on an agenda for action for local authorities, and has released our case-based contributions.
Next month, we’ll find out if director Alfonso Cuarón Orozco’s moving portrayal of a domestic worker in 1970s Mexico will gain nods from the Academy with an Oscar. Having recently taken home “Best Picture” at the Critics’ Choice Awards , hopes are high. The movie has brought much-needed attention to...
Universal Health Coverage as a Right of Informal Workers in India New Delhi, India Photo: Paula Bronstein/ Getty Image Reportage In a collaboration between WIEGO and SEWA, the “Universal Health Coverage as a Right of Informal Workers in India: Collaborating for Action” roundtable took place on 19th...
Remembering the Year Gone By By: Shalini Sinha January 2021 2020 has come to an end. How time crawled while we were trapped in our homes, away from people and tasks that defined us. And, paradoxically, time also flew, with not enough hours to devote to our cause and our commitments. When the...
Sector Findings: In both 2020 and 2021, WIEGO assessed the impact of the COVID‑19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers and their households, in 11 cities around the world. The two rounds of the study included a survey questionnaire and in‑depth interviews, both conducted mostly by phone...
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.