For Informal Workers: COVID-19 Crisis Resources

Waste picker in Portland, Oregon looks at WIEGO safety materials

Find information designed to help keep informal workers safer as they work during the COVID-19 pandemic AND information to assist informal worker organizations and allies in advocacy efforts.

USE AND SHARE COVID-19 SAFETY & PREVENTION RESOURCES

for Waste Pickers

for Informal Traders

for Domestic Workers

INFORMATION FOR ADVOCACY

Working in Public Space manual cover thumbnail — **WIEGO's Worker Education Materials**

Common Demands of MBO Partners in WIEGO's COVID-19 Crisis Study

The organizations of informal workers which took part in the WIEGO-led 12-city COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study are calling for continuing relief, inclusive recovery and longer-term reforms for informal workers going forward. These demands, with concrete examples, has been categorized into a common framework. This “Summary of Demands” is intended to support these and other organizations of informal workers in their on-going struggles - their advocacy and negotiations - for a full and just recovery and for a “better deal” in the future for informal workers.

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Statistics on the informal economy

The first-ever global estimates on the size of informal employment, published by the ILO in 2018, show 61% of all workers are informally employed. That’s 2 billion workers worldwide—whether self-employed, wage workers, casual day labourers or dependent contractors.

BY REGION
Informal employment as per cent of total employment by region (excluding developed countries)

Region	%
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding Southern Africa)	92
Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole	89
Southern Asia	88
East and South-eastern Asia (excluding China)	77
Middle East and North Africa	68
Latin America and the Caribbean	54
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	37