Africa

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...

Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 — The Domestic Workers’ Convention

The Art of Survival

Presentation from the Cape Town conference on research on the informal economy

DITSELA Online Workers’ Education Institute

The website describes DITSELA as follows: “Ditsela is a joint project of the two largest Labour Federations in South Africa, COSATU...

Salvando o “Mercado Mãe”: mobilizando vendedores ambulantes em Durban

AeT – Traders Present Infrastructure Needs to City Officials: A Milestone in Constructive Engagement

This blog post was written by Tasmi Quazi of AeT. “On 19 October 2016, trader leaders from three informal market districts that have...

Draft Policy for the Informal Economy of KwaZulu Natal.

This document sets out the policy framework that will create an environment that supports sustainable economic growth in the informal economy...

Kwa Zulu Natal Street Trading By-laws, 2005

This document outlines the street trading by- laws of Kwa Zulu Natal.