Theme: Public and Workplace Services

Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work

This report takes a comprehensive look at unpaid and paid care work and its relationship with the changing world of work. A key focus is...

WIEGO Photo News Report – Ergonomics Workshop with Waste Pickers from Redesol, Cataunidos and Catavales

An ergonomics workshop was held with 39 waste pickers from 17 Brazilian cooperatives.This workshop was led by certified physical therapist,...

Child Care Initiative Strategic Workshop

• June 21, 2015 - June 23, 2015

The goal of the Child Care Initiative Strategic Workshop was to determine the future direction of WIEGO’s Child Care Initiative. Through...

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

Quality Childcare as a Right of All Workers

• September 12, 2017

New Delhi, IndiaPhoto by: Paula Bronstein – Getty Images/Reportage Co-hosted by WIEGO, SEWA and FORCES (Forum for creches and child...

APSP Conference in Maputo

• October 18, 2017 - October 20, 2017

Maputo/Mozambique Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage

FES-WIEGO Child Care and Social Protection for Informal Workers International Meeting

• November 1, 2017 - November 3, 2017
• Durban, South Africa

Durban, South Africa  

IUF Women’s Conference and IUF Congress in Geneva

• August 26, 2017 - September 1, 2017

Geneva, SwitzerlandPhoto by Jonathan Torgovnik / Getty Images-Reportage 

Innovative approaches for more inclusive social protection of informal workers panel

• June 8, 2017

Brussels, Belgium Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Reportage The panel “Innovative approaches for more inclusive social protection of...

Workshop: Quality Public Child Care for all Informal Workers

• July 24, 2017
• Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico In the context of the recent introduction of the “right to care” to the Mexico City Constitution, WIEGO and OXFAM Mexico...