Theme: SSE and Cooperatives

WIEGO in The Economist

“Someone from the public or the government doesn’t wake up one morning and think ‘Let’s think about the waste pickers’,” she says. “These...

Global 16 Days Campaign

• November 25, 2020 - December 10, 2020
• Online

The Global 16 Days Campaign, launched in collaboration with global feminists by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at its first...

Beyond Insecurity: A New Approach to Work, Wages and Wealth Distribution

• August 27, 2020
• Online

7:30 am EDT (GMT -4) – 9:30 AM

Communication Tools To Empower Women Home-Based Workers During COVID-19

WIEGO has partnered with HomeNet South Asia in a Comic Relief-supported project, to highlight the various tools and strategies being used...

ILO COOP 100 Webinar III – Cooperatives for Climate Action

• July 3, 2020
• Online

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. CEST (GMT+2) The International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) is celebrated on the first Saturday of July every year. The...

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

Waste pickers’ cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations

Waste pickers make significant contributions to public health, sanitation, and the environment by promoting resource circulation and reducing...

Interactions between Workers’ Organizations and Workers in the Informal Economy: A Compendium of Practice

This Compendium demonstrates successful interactions by workers organizations with workers in the informal economy to reduce decent work...

March 1-5: Activities mark Int’l Waste Pickers’ Day

On March 1st, waste pickers around the globe will mark International Waste Pickers’ Day. Activities on that day and through the week...

Worker Rights in Informal Economies

In this article, contained in the volume Organising Precarious Workers in the Global South (Beyond Slavery/Open Democracy), Sally Roever...