Organization and Representation Programme

Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

 This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

This Briefing Note describes the background, objectives, activities and achievements of the Women’s Network as an example of better practice...

A Experiência de Advocacy no caso dos Trabalhadores Ambulantes em São Paulo

Este sumário, disponível em português, faz uma reflexão sobre o processo jurídico que contestou e acabou por derrubar uma proibição da Câmara...

Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider

This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based...

Challenges and Experiences in Organizing Home-Based Workers in Bulgaria

The Home-Based Workers’ Association in Bulgaria is an extraordinary example of how informal women workers have managed to build a strong...

Defining and Categorizing Organizations of Informal Workers in Developing and Developed Countries

This organizing brief, written for researchers and activists concerned about informal workers, aims to capture the full range of or­ganizational...

Global Networking: Informal Workers Build Solidarity, Power and Representation through Networks and Alliances

Over the past three decades informal workers, mainly in the global South and their organizations have joined and launched global networks...

Declaration of the African Regional Domestic Workers Conference

On 16 June, 2013, the second anniversary of the adoption of the C189 and the World Domestic Workers’ Day, domestic workers in Africa launched...

“Yes, We Did It!” How the World’s Domestic Workers Won Their International Rights and Recognition

Home-Based Workers Regional Meeting, Latin America

A compilation of laws and policies protecting home-based workers (wage-employed and self-employed), the document was prepared over five years...