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Recognizing Waste Pickers

In many developing countries, high recycling rates (50-80%) can be credited to the informal sector. Johnston Doe explains how waste pickers...

Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Street Vendor Evictions in Accra, Ghana

• January 31, 2018

Accra, Ghana

Informal Economy Workers Meet Political Parties in Ghana

• August 17, 2016
• Accra, Ghana

Accra, Ghana Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage Associations of informal economy met representatives of major Ghanaian political parties,...

Créer un « espace public pour tous » : stratégies utiles à l’intention des vendeurs et vendeuses de rue

Par Jenna Harvey « Je veux voir une ville sans expulsions. Je veux les voir [vendeurs de rue] jouir du droit à la ville, où aucun gouvernement,...

Strategies for Street Vendors to Create “Public Space for All”

By Jenna Harvey “I want to see an eviction-free city. I want to see them [street vendors] having a right to the city, where no government,...

Informal workers and taxes: What “tax justice” looks like from below

A growing tax justice movement has been exposing the shadowy ways in which elites and large trans-national corporations often avoid paying...

“Take away these tolls”: How Accra’s poorest market workers got their wages back

By Carlin CarrAccra’s colorful, bustling markets run on the back-breaking labour of some of the city’s poorest and most vulnerable. Goods...

From Lima to Bangkok, WIEGO Lays Out Strategy to Improve Conditions of Informal Workers in Six Target Cities

By Jenna Harvey It is morning rush hour in Bangkok and moto-taxi drivers ferry hurried commuters through stalled traffic. In Mexico City,...

Five Case Studies that Illustrate Steps Toward an Inclusive City

Creating “inclusive cities” is a hot topic right now. Habitat III has just wound up in Quito, Ecuador – the UN’s urban conference that brought...