Global Research

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...

Domestic Workers: Fighting COVID-19 Together RESOURCES

Resources for domestic workers: Download and share these resources in Social Media. Ready to use on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Virtual Speaker Series: Gender and Power in COVID-19

• May 14, 2020
• Online

WIEGO’s Social Protection Director Laura Alfers joined a panel discussion as part of the WomenLift Health Gender & Power in COVID-19...

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

Innovación y unidad: Cómo se están adaptando las personas trabajadoras en domicilio al mundo de la COVID-19

Las personas trabajadoras en domicilio están entre las más invisibilizadas y descuidadas del mundo, y están demasiado familiarizadas con...

Innovation et unité : Comment les travailleuse·eur·s à domicile s’adaptent au monde de la COVID-19

Les travailleurs à domicile sont parmi les travailleuse•eur•s les plus invisibles et les plus négligé•e•s du monde, et connaissent trop bien...

Not just hunger but also safety: Relief for waste pickers during COVID-19

by Avi Singh Majithia  May 4, 2020

WEBINAR: Impacts of COVID-19 on care politics

• May 19, 2020
• Online @socialprotection.org

9:00 am EDT (GMT-4) – 11:00 a.m. Rachel Moussié, WIEGO’s Deputy Director of Social Protection participated in a webinar, WIEGO Impacts of...