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Executive Summary: The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers

This summary provides a preliminary overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to affect the world’s more than 2 billion informal...

The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers — We Need an Inclusive Recovery for the Majority of the World’s Workforce

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy – Global Findings, Round 2 Policy Insights No. 8 In The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers...

Informal Workers in Southeast Asia: Resourceless, yet Resourceful

Informal workers dominate the region’s labor market in both urban and rural areas. More than half of the workforce in most Southeast Asian...

The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods

The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...

COVID-19 Laws and Informal Workers

In March 2020, WIEGO’s Law Programme began a project to collect, collate and analyse the COVID-19 laws in 41 countries in Africa, 7 in Asia,...

Inequalities and the World of Work: A Major Challenge of Our Time

• November 25, 2021 - December 11, 2021
• ILO Headquarters, Geneva
  Virtual

109th Session of the International Labour Conference  

The Recognition and Protection of Informal Traders in COVID-19 Laws: Lessons from Asia

This analysis covers COVID-19 laws in seven Asian countries, namely, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and...

Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Emergency relief in crisis and disaster situations; COVID-19 relief

This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

Homes Double as Workplaces for Many Urban Poor, Especially Women

To highlight the challenges faced by home-based workers as well as efforts to address these challenges, the WIEGO network commissioned resources...

Building Back Better: Informal Workers Stake Their Claim for an Inclusive Delhi

Delhi stands at a critical historical juncture. More than a year after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and a few months after a devastating...