Africa

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Accra’s Street & Market Vendors: Realities & Recommendations

Report on the Liberia Labour Force Survey 2010

From the ILO website: In 2010, the ILO supported Liberia in conducting a national Labour Force Survey. The survey report has recently been...

Occupational and Environmental Health Risks Associated with Informal Sector Activities—Selected Case Studies from West Africa

Abstract: Most in the Economic Community of West African States region are employed in the informal sector. While the informal sector plays...

Addressing the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Needs of Informal Workers: Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This case study illustrates the efforts of two membership-based organizations of market traders and street vendors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan...

Reclaiming Livelihoods: The Role of Reclaimers in Municipal Waste Management Systems

Adverse incorporation and agrarian policy in South Africa: Or, how not to connect the rural poor to growth

(Paper presented at the Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to Economic Growth Conference, Washington, D.C., 26-27 February,...

Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa: Lessons from the Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences

 This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Methodological innovations in research on the dynamics of poverty: a longitudinal study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.