Public and Workplace Services

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

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

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...

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...

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...

World Day for Safety & Health at Work

April 28 is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The need to protect workers who provide essential services has never been greater. WIEGO...

Los Rifados de la Basura Campaign 

In Mexico City, thousands of people work daily keeping the city clean, collecting waste from residents and recycling reusable materials....

HOME-BASED WORKERS: A New Kind of Isolation

Home-based workers who produce goods and services for local markets or for national and international buyers have always been isolated and...

Informal workers on the frontlines of COVID-19: Providing critical services without adequate protections and pay

Although many informal workers are now considered to be “essential workers,” that was not always the case. Before the crisis, ongoing harassment...