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

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...

Asiye Etafuleni

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

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

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...

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...

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...