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  • Pakistan home-based worker - cover photo SB26 Statistical Briefs

    Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile

    In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while...

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  • Home-based potter in Bangladesh Statistical Briefs

    Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile

    In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour...

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  • Four working women wearing masks Project

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study

    WIEGO and our partners are listening long and hard to informal workers through our multi-city study: COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy....

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Working in Garment Supply Chains: A Homeworker’s Toolkit (high-res)

    The Working in Garment Supply Chains: A Homeworker’s Toolkit was developed in response to a demand by HNSA’s membership. It aims to offer...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Working in Garment Supply Chains: A Homeworker’s Toolkit (low-res)

    The Working in Garment Supply Chains: A Homeworker’s Toolkit was developed in response to a demand by HNSA’s membership. It aims to offer...

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  • Bhavna Ramesh sews purses at home. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study September 02, 2020

    Women who work from home ‘shrouded in a cloak of invisibility’

    “When we think of work-from-home, let us enable and promote better living and working conditions not just for the elite, but also for the...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Trabajadoras y trabajadores en empleo informal durante la crisis de la COVID-19

    En una respuesta inmediata a la COVID-19, WIEGO llevó a cabo una evaluación rápida para entender cómo están afectando la pandemia y las medidas...

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  • Sally Roever News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study August 29, 2020

    COVID-19: What happens to women with low incomes after they lose their jobs?

    “It’s very hard to see what the other end of this crisis is going to look like at the grassroots level, at the base of the economic...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia (Khmer)

    Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Tungo sa Pagsaklaw sa Pangangalagang Pangkalusugan para sa Lahat para sa mga Manggagawa sa Bahay sa Timog-Silangang Asya

    Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

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