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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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  • Resource Documents

    Craft Supply Chains in Africa: Consolidating Our Findings

    Key Points

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Chains and Challenges: Craft Supply Chains in Africa

    Because crafts are such an important source of work and income for home‑based workers in Africa, HomeNet Africa, in partnership with WIEGO,...

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  • On 4 May 2023 in Dakar, Bokk Diom waste pickers demonstrated against a government measure that will limit their access to Mbeubeuss dumpsite Post

    Bokk Diom Mobilizes Against Partial Closure of Mbeubeuss Dumpsite in Dakar

    The Association of Waste Pickers Bokk Diom demands that Senegal’s government keeps its promises of inclusion as the closure of West Africa’s...

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  • Domestic worker Anna Nkobele, based in Johannesburg Post
    Collective Bargaining June 14, 2023

    African Domestic Workers Fighting for Rights and Reclaiming Power

    Society is still not valuing domestic workers more than a decade after the International Labour Organization adopted a convention extending...

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  • Briefs

    Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

    The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...

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  • Jun 06 2023

    Livelihood Centred Public Space Innovations

    • June 6, 2023
    • Online

    Date: Tuesday June 6, 2023Time: 8:00 – 9:30 (EST)Duration: 90 minutesLanguage: English only

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  • Webinar on Informal Economy Work and the Right to Work in Africa - Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik May 30 2023

    Webinar on Informal Economy Work and the Right to Work in Africa

    • May 30, 2023
    • Online

    Date: Tuesday May 30, 2023Time: 12:00hrs – 14:00hrs (GMT); 15:00hrs – 17:00hrs (EAT); 14:00hrs – 16:00hrs (SAT)Duration: 2 hoursLanguages:...

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  • StreetNet International/WIEGO African Regional Social Protection Conference. Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik. Jun 21 2023

    StreetNet International/WIEGO African Regional Social Protection Conference

    • June 21, 2023 - June 24, 2023
    • Lagos, Nigeria

    WIEGO and StreetNet International have been collaborating for three years on work on social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. This conference...

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  • 111th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) Thumbnail Jun 05 2023

    111th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC)

    • June 5, 2023 - June 16, 2023
    • ILO Headquarters
      Geneva

    111th Session of the International Labour Conference: A just transition towards sustainable and inclusive economies, and labour protection The...

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  • Street vendors in Accra, Ghana. Post
    Access to Public Space May 10, 2023

    Uganda’s Constitutional Court Holds Vagrancy Laws Unconstitutional

    In a ground-breaking decision for street vendors and other informal workers, the Constitutional Court of Uganda found the country’s vagrancy...

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