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  • City/Country Level Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

    This report presents the Durban, South Africa, findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study that...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and Street Vendors in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

    Between 10,000 and 20,000 New Yorkers make their living selling food or merchandise on the city’s streets. This report presents the NYC Street...

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  • Woman sawing from home (Tailoring) during COVIS-19 pandemic Policy/Position Documents

    Position Paper on Inequalities and the World of Work, prepared for the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference

    Despite a pre-pandemic modest decrease in the number of people living in extreme poverty, the number of extremely poor increased by about...

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  • Resource Documents

    The Recognition and Protection of Informal Traders in COVID-19 Laws: Lessons from Asia

    This analysis covers COVID-19 laws in seven Asian countries, namely, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Social Protection for Informal Workers: Trends and Changes – Social Protection Briefing Note No. 2

    Many different organizations and specialists talk about universal social protection. But their vision of how to achieve it is very different....

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  • Meenaben at work in her home Project

    Home as Workplace

    For an estimated 260 million home-based workers around the world, their home doubles as their workplace. Homes are also used as work or storage...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Winning a Right to the Sidewalks: Street Vendors in New York

    This Brief seeks to identify and examine certain factors that led to the proposal to reform New York’s street vending legislation that...

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  • Meat seller in Accra, Ghana Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study September 08, 2021

    Regulating Informal Food Vending in Times of COVID-19 and Beyond: Best Practices from Africa and Latin America

    Governments, preoccupied with guaranteeing the availability of essential goods and services, compiled lists of essential activities that...

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  • Family-Friendly Policies for Workers - joint WIEGO/ILO/UNICEF paper Research Reports

    Family-Friendly Policies for Workers in the Informal Economy

    This policy brief is an outcome of a collaboration between WIEGO, UNICEF and the ILO in advocating for family-friendly policies to protect...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Re-examining Legal Narratives on Vagrancy, Public Spaces and Colonial Constructs: A Commentary on the ACHPR’s Advisory Opinion on Vagrancy Laws in Africa

    This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’...

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