Region: Africa

Nurturing a culture of compliance with domestic workers’ rights in South Africa

Understanding South African social security through recent household surveys: New opportunities and continuing gaps

The aim of this article is to identify some of the difficult areas in researching the South African social security system, and to offer...

Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South Africa

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

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

Disabling governance: Privatisation of city markets and implications for vendors‟ associations in Kampala, Uganda

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Hidden health costs of pesticide use in Zimbabwe’s smallholder cotton growers

Engendering Social Protection

Conference Summary Report from an International Conference on Social Protection and Gender, held with social protection officials and civil...

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

Disempowerment from Below: Informal Enterprise Networks and the Limits of Political Voice in NigeriaOxford Development Studies

Abstract: Decentralized governance has enjoyed limited success in promoting popular livelihoods and political voice among informal actors....

The dilemma of managing the challenges of street vending in public spaces: The case of Enugu City, Nigeria

Abstract: Urbanisation trend in sub-Saharan Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, is characterised by rapid urban population growth...