Region: Africa

City-level statistical snapshots for South Africa and Thailand available for the first time

WIEGO’s Statistics Programme is launching a new set of Statistical Briefs that provide key indicators of informal employment and key...

Global Health at the Frontline-Community Health Worker Level

• November 10, 2019
• Women's Leadership in Global Health Conference
  Kigali, Rwanda

This panel at the Women’s Leadership in Global Health Conference, 2019, gave essential frontline health workers—who are usually women...

Project to help improve working conditions for Mbeubeuss waste pickers

WIEGO and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched a joint initiative to work with waste pickers at Mbeubeuss, the largest...

Technology & Urban Informal Workers

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

Informal Economy Budget Analysis for Lilongwe City in Malawi – Resource Document 13

In Dakar, lawyers experience informal workers’ daily lives and rethink policy

Policymaking that impacts informal workers rarely comes with first-hand knowledge of their lives and needs. A new initiative in Dakar, Senegal,...

Dakar : après s’être mis dans la peau des travailleuses et travailleurs de l’informel, des avocats réévaluent les politiques

Les politiques ayant un impact sur la vie des travailleuses et travailleurs de l’informel sont rarement élaborées sur la base de la connaissance...

OpEd: South Africa’s Informal Sector Creates Jobs

WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Caroline Skinner wrote an OpEd in The Conversation shedding light on the realities of South Africa’s...

Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Lilongwe, Malawi

In 2013, 89 per cent of Malawi’s 5.5 million employed people were informally employed. Informal economy budget analysis (IEBA) explores the...