Conference & Meeting Presentations from the OHS Project
July 2014
WIEGO and its partners from SEWA, HomeNet Thailand and the Federal University of Bahia attended the Institute of Medicine’s workshop on “Approaches to UHC & OHS for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries.” The Institute is one of the National Academies of Science in the USA and an influential policy-focused NGO. The workshop examined approaches, successes and challenges in extending universal health coverage (UHC) and occupational health and safety (OHS) to informal workers in five countries: Brazil, Ghana, India, South Africa and Thailand.
October 2011
International Commission on Occupational Health/Ghana Health Services Conference on OHS in Small and Medium Enterprises
Alfers, Laura. A Case Study from Ghana of Good Practice in Developing OHS for Informal Workers
Santana, Vilma S., et al. Gathering Occupational Health Data from Informal Workers - The Brazilian Experience
May 2011
OHS Learning Meeting in Durban, South Africa was detailed in OHS Newsletter #3.
Presentations from the 2011 Learning Meeting
- Laura Alfers -Institutional Context of OHS in 4 Countries
- Laura Alfers and Dorcas Ansah - Ghana Country Presentation
- Mirai Chatterjee and Mittal Shah - Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
- Poornima Chikarmane and Dipanwita Sengupta - Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP)
- Sonia Dias - Waste Pickers Perspective
- Richard Dobson and Phumzile Xulu - The Imagine Durban Cardboard Recycling Project
- Anita Gonzales - Peru OHS Project Coordination
- Vicky Kanyoka - The Work-Place and OHS: Domestic Workers' Perspectives
- Vicky Kanyoka - Tanzania Country Presentation
- Barry Kistnamy - Planning for Policy Influence
- Francie Lund - Working Poor in the Informal Economy
- Masuma Mamdani - OHS Legislation in Tanzania
- Esther Ofei-Aboagye and Dorcas Ansah - Strengthening Organizations in Ghana
- Estela Ospina - Institutional Mapping of OHS in Peru
- Vilma Santana - OHS Initiatives for Informal Workers - The Case Study of Brazil
- Poonsap Tulaphan - OHS Promotion Experiences for Home-Based Workers in Thailand