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In Senegal, 84 per cent of employment is informal. This brief examines six groups of informal workers who comprised over three-quarters of total employment in 2019.
WIEGO’s latest Statistical Brief, Informal Workers in Chile: A Statistical Profile, provides insight into the impact COVID-19 and the pandemic response have had on workers and levels on employment and informality in a developed country. The COVID-19 crisis brought great changes to employment...
Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve their disputes with local authorities. Through the author’s personal reflection, the brief explores how we as lawyers can engage in social movement lawyering...
Informal workers make up a large proportion of the “missing middle” in social protection – those who are not considered vulnerable enough to benefit from social assistance measures and often excluded from employment-linked social protection. During the COVID-19 crisis, this gap in social protection...
The 2020-2021 Annual Report highlights the main achievements of WIEGO’s work and shows how WIEGO programmes support different sectors of informal workers. It also zooms in on WIEGO's work together with organizations of informal workers during the pandemic.
In this brief, we discuss the changes in Bolsa Família, the Brazilian cash-grant flagship programme, in light of the recent developments in social assistance stemming from the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis. The government has terminated the 18-year-old programme and replaced it with a new...
Brazil is a leader in recognizing its more than 281,000 informal waste pickers in recycling chains and the country’s official statistics. This Statistical Brief uses official data from 2002-2019 to examine the numbers, sex, geographic locations, ages, education levels, membership in associations and...
O Brasil é líder no reconhecimento de seus mais de 281.000 catadores informais em cadeias de reciclagem e nas estatísticas oficiais do país. Este Resumo Estatístico emprega dados oficiais de 2002 a 2019 para examinar quantos catadores coletam, classificam e vendem o que outros descartaram em todo...
This policy brief aims to provide a descriptive picture of the condition of domestic workers in Bihar State. Bihar included domestic workers in the minimum wage notification in 2009, but while many domestic workers noted that they earn more than the stipulated minimum wage per month, most said that...
This policy brief aims to provide a descriptive picture of the condition of domestic workers in Nagaland, as well as highlight key policy recommendations. Nagaland is situated in India’s northeastern territories, which are home to almost one-third of the country’s tribal communities. This brief is...
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.