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How COVID-19 has Increased Vulnerability in the Informal Sector: Business Environment Solutions

• February 10, 2021
• Online

Wednesday, February 10 at 14:00 CET (08:00 EST) This webinar, hosted by DCED (Donor Committee for Enterprise Development), looked at the...

Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19

Background There is widespread recognition, both internationally and in South Africa, that the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 have...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Ahmedabad, India

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Accra, Ghana

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study: Blogs

Blogs: Informal economy workers tell of COVID-19 crucial issues Workers in the informal economy lost close to 80 per cent of their...

Hopes Go Up in Smoke: A Migrant Street Trader in Durban, South Africa

For immigrant street traders in Durban, life was hard and lean before COVID-19. When South Africa imposed a strict lockdown in response to...

Hungry: A Migrant Domestic Worker in Cape Town, South Africa

Hunger during South Africa’s early COVID-19 lockdown was widespread among domestic workers. A domestic worker from Zimbabwe, who lives in...

The Art of Recovery: A Johannesburg Reclaimer’s Story

Ernestine Mohloboli, a former artist who now makes a living collecting waste in Johannesburg, has long been a proponent of organizing reclaimers....

Sewing the Seams: Cape Town Homeworkers Pull Together as COVID-19 Halts Earnings

Homeworkers in the garment industry are the most vulnerable and exploited link in the supply chain and Cape Town homeworker Chevonne Jacobs...

Undeterred in the Face of a Crisis: Profile of a Market Trader in Durban, South Africa

A determined advocate in the struggle for traders’ rights, Romilla Chetty was desperate to get her trading stalls at Durban’s Warwick Junction...