Theme: Public and Workplace Services

Ageing in an Unequal World conference

• July 4, 2018 - July 6, 2018

Manchester, England The British Society of Gerontology 47th Annual Conference 2018 was held at the University of Manchester, England, from...

63rd Commission on the Status of Women

• March 11, 2019 - March 22, 2019

CSW63 UN Headquarters, New York Representatives of UN Member States, civil society organizations and UN entities gathered at the UN headquarters...

Home Net South East Asia (HNSEA) Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Workshop

• September 26, 2018 - September 28, 2018

Luang Prabang, Laos This HomeNet South East Asia (HNSEA) workshop was attended by affiliates of HNSEA from Thailand, Laos, Philippines and...

Webinar: Social protection and social security

• August 29, 2019

 Photo Credit: Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage

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

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Inadequate infrastructure – particularly related to clean water and toilets – and the cost of accessing these takes a heavy toll...

Social Protection Programme: Past Activities

An Examination of Social Protection for Informal Workers in Global Value Chains Working with the ILO and World Bank, WIEGO used value chain...

Promoting R204 in Malawi

Since 2016, WIEGO’s Law Programme and its Organization and Representation Programme has partnered with the Malawi Union for the Informal...

Care Workers

Child care workers provide a necessary and valuable service that benefits individual families and the community and state. But care workers—almost...