Conference/symposium

Policy Responses to the Employment Effects of COVID-19 in the Global South: What Have We Learnt So Far?

• September 1, 2020 - September 4, 2020
• Online

September 2, 2020: 3 PM (CEST, UTC+2) The World Bank in collaboration with  UNU-WIDER , the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Network...

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

• August 27, 2020
• Online

7:30 am EDT (GMT -4) – 9:30 AM

Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Labour and Employment in India: Impact, Strategies and Perspectives

• June 8, 2020 - June 9, 2020
• Online

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...

Territorial dynamics of waste collecting and recycling: Experience exchange and innovative solutions

• December 9, 2019 - December 13, 2019
• Hanoi, Vietnam

Highlighting Vietnam, Indonesia, India and Brazil Experts gathered in Hanoi to exchange experiences and research results concerning the issues...

Technical Deep Dive: Improving Infrastructure, Services and Livelihoods in Low Income Urban Settlements

• December 2, 2019 - December 6, 2019
• Tokyo, Japan

WIEGO’s Marty Chen, Jenna Harvey and Sonia Dias brought expertise on urban informal livelihoods and presented case studies on inclusive...

UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

• November 25, 2019 - November 27, 2019
• Geneva, Switzerland

The UN annual Forum on Business and Human Rights is the global platform for stock-taking and lesson-sharing on efforts to move the UN Guiding...

Global Social Protection Week

• November 25, 2019 - November 28, 2019
• ILO Headquarters
  Geneva, Switzerland

WIEGO participated in Global Social Protection Week, a high-level conference and technical discussion to chart the way towards universal...

Global Health at the Frontline-Community Health Worker Level

• November 10, 2019
• Women's Leadership in Global Health Conference
  Kigali, Rwanda

This panel at the Women’s Leadership in Global Health Conference, 2019, gave essential frontline health workers—who are usually women...

International Labour Conference 2016

• May 30, 2016 - June 10, 2016
• Geneva, Switzerland

General Discussion on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains In 2016, members of the WIEGO Network participated in the general discussion on...