Region: Africa

Workshop on the Implementation of ILO Recommendation 204 in South Africa

• May 23, 2017 - May 25, 2017

Johannesburg, South Africa

Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Street Vendor Evictions in Accra, Ghana

• January 31, 2018

Accra, Ghana

Reducing Waste in Coastal Cities (RWCC) Strategic Planning Meeting and West Africa Waste Pickers Workshop

• April 1, 2019 - April 5, 2019
• Dakar, Senegal

Dakar, Senegal Photo credit: Sonia Dias The Reducing Waste in Coastal Cities Strategic Planning Meeting and the first-ever West African waste...

FES-Zambia, WIEGO/ITUC- Africa/ALRN Rights-Based Social Protection Workshop

• October 8, 2018 - October 10, 2018

Lusaka, Zambia   “Social protection is about providing for those in society unable to provide for themselves, the poor, the incapacitated,...

Informal Economy Workers Meet Political Parties in Ghana

• August 17, 2016
• Accra, Ghana

Accra, Ghana Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage Associations of informal economy met representatives of major Ghanaian political parties,...

Habitat III Regional Meeting in Africa

• February 22, 2016 - February 26, 2016
• Abuja, Nigeria

WIEGO’s Victoria Okoye attended the Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria. This meeting provided a platform to debate regional...

Table ronde sur la prise en charge des travailleuses et travailleurs à Dakar

• May 30, 2017
• Dakar, Senegal

Dakar, Sénégal Une table ronde sur la prise en charge des travailleuses et travailleurs de l’Informel dans les programmes de protection...

Inclusive Cities for the Urban Working Poor – Lessons from Africa

• February 24, 2016
• Westminster, London

Hosted by the Africa Research Institute (ARI), this event showcased WIEGO’s research and analysis with a particular focus on Africa.Marty...

For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

Inadequate infrastructure – particularly related to clean water and toilets – and the cost of accessing these takes a heavy toll...

Global Movement of Home-Based Workers

History of this Movement Home-based workers approached SEWA. We realized that many ’housewives’ are workers, but are invisible – even for...