Region: Africa

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 et unité : Comment les travailleuse·eur·s à domicile s’adaptent au monde de la COVID-19

Les travailleurs à domicile sont parmi les travailleuse•eur•s les plus invisibles et les plus négligé•e•s du monde, et connaissent trop bien...

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...

ZCIEA (Zimbabwe) Press Statement On The Destruction Of Vendors’ Stalls during COVID-19 Lockdown

Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) is deeply saddened by the horrible, inhuman and ruthless destruction of vendors’...

Message from President of SAITA on the effects of COVID-19 to the informal business economy

In an open letter, Rosheda Muller, President of South African Informal Traders Alliance (SAITA), has called on governments to support informal...

Informal Workers in Ghana: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief details recent data on informal workers in Greater Accra, urban Ghana and Ghana overall, and looks at the data:

Activities in Accra Mark International Waste Pickers Day

• March 1, 2020 - March 5, 2020
• Accra, Ghana

In Accra, the events marking International Waste Pickers Day (March 1st) will last all week. Waste pickers will hold a press conference,...

Street Vendor Exclusion in “Modern” Market Planning: A Case Study from Kumasi, Ghana

Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy

In this article in Agenda, WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers examine sources of gender inequality within the South African informal...