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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

    Meet the Divine Cocoa Farmers

    From the website: Behind the widely-recognised Fairtrade logo, is the human reality of what Fairtrade is doing. People buy Fairtrade food...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Weekly LEDNA Newsletter June 20 2014

    This issue includes information about a LEDNA research paper by Stephen Kofi Diko, “Right to the City: Promoting Local Economic Development...

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  • Presentations

    Regional Update for Africa & Middle East Global Conference HBW 2015

    Presentation from the 2005 Global Conference on Home-Based Workers (HBW) organized by WIEGO and HomeNet South Asia (HNSA).

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  • Legal Instruments

    Ghana Domestic Workers Campaign Poster

    Ghana TUC’s campaign poster for domestic workers.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Employment and Labour Relations Act, 2004

    This Act makes provisions for core labour rights, to establish basic employment standards, to provide a framework for collective bargaining...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1987

    This document outlines the rights of working people for complensation for persoanl injury and possible loss of life from their employers. ...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    eThekwini’s Informal Economy Policy

    Approved and adopted by the Durban Unicity Council

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    The Launch of ‘Design with the Other 90%: CITIES’

    Reflections on the launch of  Design with the Other 90%: CITIES’ exhibition, a project by the Smithsonian-Cooper Hewitt, National Design...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Informal Workers’ Access to Healthcare

    This 10-minute video by WIEGO and partners, Asiye eTafuleni(AeT) in South Africa; HomeNet Thailand; and the Self-Employed Women’s Association...

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  • Project Reports

    Technology and the Future of Work: Experiences of informal waste workers and street vendors in Dhaka, Lima, and Nairobi

    “Through  a  year-long  project  supported  by  the  Rockefeller  Foundation, Practical  Action  and  WIEGO  (Women  in  Informal ...

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