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

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Weekly LEDNA Newsletter June 21 2013

    Electronic newsletter from LEDNA (Local Economic Development Network of Africa)

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  • Legal Instruments

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

    Law governing micro-businesses in Kenya

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    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...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    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:...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    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...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    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,...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    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...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    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,...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Opções para organizar os Catadores de Recicláveis na África do Sul

    Resumo do relatório organização WIEGO 3 (português)

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics