Child Care

Three new ways of looking at the urgent need for quality childcare

Few public investments will have as transformative an impact on present and future generations, and on equality between women and men and...

Women in the gig economy: paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa

  This is the description provided by ODI: The gig economy is expanding globally, with exponential growth forecast in traditionally female-dominated...

Global Health at the Frontline-Community Health Worker Level

• November 10, 2019
• Women's Leadership in Global Health Conference
  Kigali, Rwanda

This panel at the Women’s Leadership in Global Health Conference, 2019, gave essential frontline health workers—who are usually women...

Four Key Points to Ensure Child Care Reaches the Poorest Working Women

This year’s World Day for Decent Work on October 7 calls for improved investment in the care economy, including child care. WIEGO’s Social...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

Urban Planning for the Working Poor

Background Note for the HABITAT Jam, December 1-4, 2005

Falling through the Regulatory Cracks: Street Selling of Pesticides and Poisoning among Urban Youth in South AfricaInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Transitioning from the informal to the formal economy

Report V(1), International Labour Conference, 103rd Session, 2014

Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion in the Dominican Republic

Background paper for ILO-IMF Tripartite Consultation on Job-rich and Inclusive Growth in the Dominican Republic.

Women Informal Workers Mobilizing for Child Care

This paper provides Member-Based Organizations (MBOs) with examples of how women in informal employment are mobilizing for child care in...