Building Collective Power

Organizing & Organizations

To overcome barriers, informal workers need to be organized and their organizations need to be legally recognized and officially represented...

Supporting Self‑Organization of Home‑Based Workers in Africa: Lessons Learned

This organizing brief draws out the lessons of HBWs organizing in five countries; Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. It...

4 Ways Informal Workers Use Cooperatives

A delegation of workers at the recent ILC conference on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy noted the importance of optimizing...

SEWA Sangini Cooperative: Providing Child Care for Women Informal Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

The SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres...

COVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities – Executive Summary

The longitudinal multi-city study of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers finds that earnings are still far below their...

New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the MUPROSI Health Mutual in Togo

In Togo, workers in the informal economy (90.7% of the total workforce) are excluded from the state’s social protection provisions. In an...

110-я сессия ILC/МКТ – Глобальный документ с изложением позиции организаций работников неформальной экономики (длинная версия)

Международные сети организаций работников неформальной экономики и WIEGO приветствуют доклад МОТ о достойном труде и экономике социальной...

ILC 2022 General Discussion on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy

In line with international labour standards, what should be a universal definition of the social and solidarity economy, taking into account...

Global Position Paper from Organizations of Workers in the Informal Economy on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), prepared for the 110th Session of the International Labour Conference (Long Version)

International networks of workers in the informal economy1 and WIEGO welcome the ILO report on decent work and the social and solidarity...

MBO Newsletter May 2022