Africa

Nos enfants ne reçoivent pas l’attention qu’ils méritent

Cette publication présente les résultats d’une étude de recherche dans cinq villes examinant l’accès des travailleuses de l´informel...

Amplifying voice, visibility and validity. Waste pickers in Jo’burg citySouth African Labour Bulletin

The November/December 2017 edition of the South African Labour Bulletin features the article, “Amplifying voice, visibility and validity....

The Informal Sector in Jinja, Uganda: Implications of Formalization and Regulation

Organizing informal workers in the urban economy: The case of the construction industry in Dar es Salaam

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Mapping the Invisible and Real ‘African’ Economy: Urban E-waste CircuitryUrban Geography

Occupational Exposure and Health Problems in Small Scale Industry Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a Situation AnalysisOccupational Medicine

Background: Workers in informal small-scale industries (SSI) in developing countries involved in welding, spray painting, woodwork and metalwork...

Occupational Health & Safety for Indigenous Caterers in Accra, Ghana

Women Working in the Informal Sector in Africa: New Methods and New Data

Paper prepared for the United Nations Statistics Division, the Gender and Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme...

Informal Employment in Namibia 2008

From the introduction: This paper reports on analysis of data from Namibia’s 2008 Labour Force Survey (LFS) so as to describe and compare...

The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Barriers to Access for Informal Workers

Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it...