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

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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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  • Toolkits and Guides

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

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Saving the “Mother Market”: Mobilizing Street Vendors in Durban

    When a historic market in Durban, South Africa was threatened by commercial development, market workers and street vendors, with the support...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Asiye Etafuleni

    Asiye eTafuleni is a Non-Profit Organisation which champions Inclusive Urban Planning & Design. This involves empowering the working...

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Muitos comerciantes, uma só voz: Reflexões de líderes da MATO, África do Sul

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  • Legal Instruments

    Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Sectoral Determination 7: Domestic Worker Sector

    This sectoral determination makes special provision for basic conditions of employment for domestic workers, over and above the general provisions...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Draft Proposals for an Informal Trading Policy for the City of East London, 1995

    This policy paper serves as a proposal for an informal trading policy for the City of East London which ahs received considerable attention...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality Street Trading Removal and Impoundment Policy

    This policy serves to enforce a by-law relating to the supervision and control of the carrying on of the business of street vendors, peddlers...

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