Public and Workplace Services

Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India’s Self Employed Women’s Association

The Informal Workers Health Project

This short report provides a summary of the interventions developed by WIEGO and its partners for Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal Workers...

Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers

Extending social protection to informal workers, most of whom are excluded from social protection, has become increasingly urgent as the...

Economic Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone

Evidence from a recent assessment by Mercy Corps of economic recovery assessment in Sierra Leone showed that youth and petty traders were...

Empowering Women in an Insecure World. Joining SEWA Makes a Difference.

Abstract: This paper examines what significance membership in SEWA has. SEWA, a trade union of self-employed poor women, uses several strategies...

Transitioning from the informal to the formal economy

Report V(1), International Labour Conference, 103rd Session, 2014

Employment Relationships and Working Conditions in an IKEA Rattan Supply Chain

The report on Employment Relationships and Working Conditions in an IKEA Rattan Supply Chain aims to contribute to the global debate and...

Revisiting Labour Markets: Implications Implications for Macroeconomics and Social Protection

New strategies for old-age income security in low income countries

Borderline Slavery: Child Trafficking in Togo