Public and Workplace Services

The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Assessing Access by Informal Workers

In 2003 the Ghanaian government introduced, a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) – an, innovative and large scale attempt to extend,...

Informal workers and the use of mobile technology and communications: Findings from key informant interviews

This is a report of a small study done to explore how mobile phones are being used, and might be better used, to improve the health of informal...

Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...

Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve

This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...

Better OHS for Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This is a summary of a case study by Tony Dzidzinyo Dogbe and Suki Annan.

Child Labour in Industrial Outworker Households in India

The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance

Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...

Decent work, decent life for domestic workers ITUC

Transitioning from the informal to the formal economy

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

An analytical framework and tool (‘InteRa’) for integrating the informal recycling sector in waste and resource management systems in developing countries

Abstract: In low- and middle-income developing countries, the informal (collection and) recycling sector (here abbreviated IRS) is an important,...