Legal Empowerment

Workshop with MUFIS in Malawi

• December 12, 2017 - December 14, 2017

Lilongwe, Malawi   A workshop with the Malawi Union for the Informal Sector (MUFIS) leadership took place on December 12th to 14th 2017,...

Law Exposure Dialogue Programme in Dakar

• April 26, 2019 - April 28, 2019

Pour voir cette page en français cliquez ici April 26-28, 2019 Legal professionals and public officials lived and worked alongside informal...

Contact-dialogue sur le droit

• April 26, 2019 - April 28, 2019

View this page in EnglishDakar, SénégalÀ Dakar, au Sénégal, pendant deux nuits et une journée, des expertes et experts juridiques et des...

Transitioning from the Informal to Formal Economy

• March 13, 2014 - March 14, 2014

This event, supported by WIEGO, took place March 2014, in Johannesburg, South Africa   “Transitioning from the Informal to Formal Economy” Africa...

Regional Exchange of Domestic Workers

• February 18, 2017 - February 19, 2017
• Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City Domestic Worker in Mexico, Photo by L. Arauz. Courtesy: CACEH Convened by the Centre for Support and Capacity

Law & Informality: Past Activities

Engaging in Global Agenda-setting Processes For example, in 2016, we participated in the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel...

Law Programme Engagement in Global Agenda Setting Processes

WIEGO’s Law Programme aims to challenge mainstream assumptions about law and informal workers — namely that informal workers...

Law Exposure Dialogue Programme

EDPs allow researchers, practitioners and officials to experience firsthand the challenges that workers in informal employment face. The...

Newsletter on Law & the Informal Economy

Latest from WIEGO’s Law Programme Subscribe to receive all our updates Law & Informality Highlights – October 2023

Informal Workers and the Law

WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers....