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  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive, experiences and insights from MHT’s work: Introduction and Documentation Framework

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

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  • Meenaben at work in her home Project

    Home as Workplace

    For an estimated 260 million home-based workers around the world, their home doubles as their workplace. Homes are also used as work or storage...

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    COVID-19 Crisis Study

    Homes Double as Workplaces for Many Urban Poor, Especially Women

    To highlight the challenges faced by home-based workers as well as efforts to address these challenges, the WIEGO network commissioned resources...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Winning a Right to the Sidewalks: Street Vendors in New York

    This Brief seeks to identify and examine certain factors that led to the proposal to reform New York’s street vending legislation that...

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  • Street vendor in Delhi, India Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study

    Building Back Better: Informal Workers Stake Their Claim for an Inclusive Delhi

    Delhi stands at a critical historical juncture. More than a year after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and a few months after a devastating...

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  • Savda Ghevra timeline thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Building Savda Ghevra: A story of resettlement in Delhi

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  • Waste pickers map thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Waste Warriors of Delhi: Locating waste picker communities across the city

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  • Home as place of work map thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Home as place of work: Locating the home-based workers of Delhi

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Re-examining Legal Narratives on Vagrancy, Public Spaces and Colonial Constructs: A Commentary on the ACHPR’s Advisory Opinion on Vagrancy Laws in Africa

    This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the implications for informal workers of the recent African Court on Human and Peoples’...

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  • Resource Documents

    O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores e vendedores ambulantes na redução da poluição do litoral durante o carnaval de Salvador da Bahia, Brasil

    English Thomas, Brittany A., Sonia M. Dias, Cynthia Deng e Mariana Pereira Guimarães. 2021. O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores...

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