Theme: Building Collective Power

Ratifications of C189 – Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)

This page of the ILO website lists countries which have ratified the C189, the Domestic Workers Convention.  It includes notes about the...

Training Module 6: Quality Management Systems

This is the sixth book in a series of seven training modules titled Developing Leadership and Business Skills for Informal Women Workers...

Executive Summary: Selective Waste Management and Waste Pickers’ Organizations: Indicators and Sustainability Indices

This is a 5-page executive summary of a 59-page research guide (in Portuguese), Gestão da coleta seletiva e de organizações de catadores:...

VIDEO: Kayayei March – Accra, December 2016

This is a video of an appreciation march by Kayayei’s on the promise that was made to them by the NPP (New Patriotic Party) to abolish...

Recruiting Informal Workers Into Democratic Workers’ Organisations (ICC1)

Organising In The Informal Economy: Resource Books For Organisers, Number 1 This series of resource books on Organising in the Informal Economy...

Handling Disputes between Informal Workers and those in Power (ICC5)

This series of resource books on Organising in the Informal Economy was written in response to requests from unions and associations for...

International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN) website

The International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) is an initiative of domestic workers’ unions  together with support organizations. ...

Workers in the Informal Economy: Platform of Issues

International Labour Conference, June 2002

Our Story Our Struggle: Lagos Tailors

This booklet emerged out of discussions in a workshop with representatives of the National Union of Tailors, Lagos. The workshop was facilitated...

Spotlight Interview with Mamadou Nama (Burkina Faso – USTB)