Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Resilience on the front lines: Building clean, healthy cities for clean, healthy seas

• June 2, 2020
• Online

On Tuesday, 2 June, 7:30 am – 8:30 a.m. EDT, waste sector specialist from WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme, Dr. Sonia M. Dias, joined global...

Resources: COVID-19 Guidelines for Informal Traders in South Africa

COVID-19 Poster Guidelines for Informal Traders (in streets, markets and spaza shops) Poster  

World Bank-WIEGO Roundtable

• May 19, 2020
• Online

On May 19th, 2020, WIEGO Urban Policy specialists joined representatives from the World Bank for an exchange about informal workers in cities...

Vegetables on Wheels in Ahmedabad, India: SEWA partners with municipality to ensure food access during lockdown

On March 24, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced a 21-day lockdown across India to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The very...

How cities can support informal workers: COVID-19 and beyond

Our last blog highlighted three essential informal workers striving to keep their communities fed, informed and clean during the COVID-19...

Qué pueden hacer las ciudades para apoyar a las personas trabajadoras en empleo informal durante la COVID-19 y en el futuro

El contexto actual dejó al descubierto la situación apremiante que atraviesan las trabajadoras y trabajadores en empleo informal. Dadas las...

Comment les villes peuvent soutenir les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel pendant la crise de la COVID-19 et au-delà

La situation actuelle a dévoilé la détresse des travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel. Les deux milliards de travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel...

Los Rifados de la Basura Campaign 

In Mexico City, thousands of people work daily keeping the city clean, collecting waste from residents and recycling reusable materials....

Informal workers on the frontlines of COVID-19: Providing critical services without adequate protections and pay

Although many informal workers are now considered to be “essential workers,” that was not always the case. Before the crisis, ongoing harassment...

Esenciales pero desprotegidos: las trabajadoras y trabajadores en empleo informal durante la crisis

Actualmente, a muchas personas trabajadoras en empleo informal se las considera “esenciales”, pero ese no siempre ha sido el caso. Antes...