Region: Africa

Social Protection Brief 1 English

Social Protection Briefing Notes

WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO’s database of social...

ZCIEA Press Statement on the re-opening of the informal sector in Zimbabwe

President of Zimbabwe has said that informal sector enterprises can operate “on condition they register with their authorities first,...

Capacité de Résilience des Acteurs de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire (ESS) Face au COVID-19

• June 17, 2020
• Online

17 juin 2020 l 11h00 l Temps Universel Coordonné (TUC) En collaboration avec le Ministère de la Microfinance et de l’Economie sociale...

Waste pickers in Accra demand consultation on livelihoods in advance of landfill closure

Hundreds of waste pickers work in Accra’s Kpone landfill, recovering about 60% of the 1200 pounds of solid waste that are dropped off...

Resources: COVID-19 Guidelines for Informal Traders in South Africa

COVID-19 Poster Guidelines for Informal Traders (in streets, markets and spaza shops) Poster  

Desperate times call for collective voice: Uganda’s home based workforce unites to demand help

Government decrees to don a mask and “be economical” are not much help for the large number of working poor people in Uganda who have lost...

Open Statement about Impacts of Covid 19 Pandemic on Home Based Workers in Uganda

A working group representing 19 home-based worker associations have joined together to send governments this statement. After detailing the...

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

Innovación y unidad: Cómo se están adaptando las personas trabajadoras en domicilio al mundo de la COVID-19

Las personas trabajadoras en domicilio están entre las más invisibilizadas y descuidadas del mundo, y están demasiado familiarizadas con...