Public and Workplace Services

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

WIEGO Childcare Initiative Summary Report (Zulu)

This summary, in Zulu, details research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations.

Institutional Mapping of Child Care Actors

On the Road to Zero Waste

This set of zero waste case studies profiles nine diverse communities, each providing a real-world example of authentic progress toward the...

Urban Planning for the Working Poor

Background Note for the HABITAT Jam, December 1-4, 2005

Going Downmarket: Ghana’s Rural Banks Adapt informal Savings Methodology

Political reservations and women’s entrepreneurship in India

Numerous countries have implemented seat reservations for women in politics over the past decades. Starting in the early 1990s, India’s flagship...

Social Security and the Changing Labour Market: Access for Non-standard and Informal Workers in South Africa

After the Iron Rice Bowl: Extending the Safety Net in China

IDS Discussion Paper, No. 377

Good Practices in Safety, Health, and Working Conditions: Home workers, farmers, construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia and Thailand