Region: Africa

Law: Micro and Small Enterprises Act, No. 55 of 2012 (Kenya)

Law governing micro-businesses in Kenya

Weekly LEDNA newsletter March 14 2014

As described on LEDNA’s website, LEDNA is:A friendly social network – a brand new way for Local Economic Development policy makers...

SETU Africa Newsletter, Volume 1 Issue 3

This issue includes:Voices from Africa WISE’s pension scheme News from SETU Africa: Ethiopian Embassy team visited SEWA Happenings at Sewa:...

Charter for a Street-Trading Friendly African City: Steps that African Mayors can take to embrace inclusive and sustainable street trading management

Informal trading is a prevalent reality in African cities, still marked by high degree of poverty, unemployment and inequality, and affected...

Position Statement from the Women Cross Border Traders Forum on Mainstreaming Gender in the SADC Regional Trade Policy and the Tripartite Free Trade Area Policy Framework

We, the Women representatives of Informal Cross Border Trader’s Associations (ICBTs) drawn from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,...

Wiego in the World: Africa

This document reviews WIEGO’s work in Africa, including in the areas of knowledge generation, capacity building and advocacy. It also...

Accra: Market, Street Traders & Headload Porter’s Health & Safety

A survey undertaken in Accra, Ghana, investigated the main occupational health and access to healthcare challenges faced by market traders,...

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

Summary of WIEGO Organizing Brief 5 (Hindi)

VIDEO: Melanie Samson (South Africa) – Including the Informal, Transforming the Public: Insights From Innovations in the Waste Sector

The Municipal Services Project conference held in April 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa brought together researchers, activists, labour,...

Informal Traders Know your Rights – South Africa – pamphlet