Region: Africa

Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban GhanaAfrican Studies Review

Abstract: Contrary to expectations of modern democratic development, the establishment of liberal-democratic institutions in Ghana has not...

Efficient lighting uptake among the urban poor: evidence from a Kenyan informal settlementEnvironment and Urbanization

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. 

Organizing Informal Women Workers

Paper prepared for UNRISD Gender Policy Report.Abstract:

Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

Statistics on Informal Employment in South Africa

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in South Africa.

Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis

Chapter can be accessed through Google Scholar or download the book, The Development Decade? in its entirety.

The reproductive and occupational health of women street vendors in Johannesburg, South AfricaSocial Science and Medicine

Waste management policy: implications for landfill waste salvagers in the Western CapeInternational Journal of Environment and Waste Management

Abstract: The City of Cape Town Solid Waste Management Department’s (CCTSWMD) design of a more formal, integrated and sustainable waste...

Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...

WIEGO Childcare Initiative Summary Report (Thai)

This summary, in Thai, details research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations.