Theme: Global Research

ILO Director-General calls for global solidarity to address COVID-19’s unequal harm

The director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, talks to Al Jazeera about the twin pressures on nations of...

Resilience on the front lines: Building clean, healthy cities for clean, healthy seas

• June 2, 2020
• Online

On Tuesday, 2 June, 7:30 am – 8:30 a.m. EDT, waste sector specialist from WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, Dr. Sonia M. Dias, joined global...

Resources: COVID-19 Guidelines for Informal Traders in South Africa

COVID-19 Poster Guidelines for Informal Traders (in streets, markets and spaza shops) Poster  

SEWA Bharat examines Gendered Precarity in India’s Lockdown

SEWA Bharat – the All India Federation of Self-employed Women’s Associations – has published the results of a phone survey it conducted in...

Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and throughout Latin America

  Despite the troubling and false narrative that has taken hold in Peru and is spreading across Latin America about the role of informal...

Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and Latin America

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Sustainability after COVID-19: Building gender equality into the response

• May 26, 2020
• Online

9:00 am EDT (GMT-4) – 10:30 a.m. WIEGO Waste Specialist Dr. Sonia M. Dias participated in a Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) webinar...

Three ways to contain COVID-19’s impact on informal women workers

Women workers in vulnerable employment have been the first to lose incomes and will be among the last to recover, write Rachel Moussié and...

Open Statement about Impacts of Covid 19 Pandemic on Home Based Workers in Uganda

A working group representing 19 home-based worker associations have joined together to send governments this statement. After detailing the...

World Bank-WIEGO Roundtable

• May 19, 2020
• Online

On May 19th, 2020, WIEGO Urban Policy specialists joined representatives from the World Bank for an exchange about informal workers in cities...