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

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  • Jan 31 2018

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

    • January 31, 2018

    Accra, Ghana

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  • Apr 01 2019

    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...

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  • May 24 2019

    Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real

    • May 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019

    The “Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real” workshop was held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The event, hosted by WIEGO...

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  • Oct 08 2018

    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,...

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  • Aug 17 2016

    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,...

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  • Ntombikayise Gagayi, bovine head cook at Warwick Junction, Durban Post
    Access to Public Space August 12, 2019

    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...

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  • Project

    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...

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  • Post
    August 08, 2019

    Accra Street Traders Make Their Concerns Heard by Municipal Officials

    In March 2013, a Policy Dialogue was held in Accra, Ghana between informal street traders and officials from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly...

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  • News
    Collective Bargaining August 07, 2019

    Public Dialogue on Forging a Path towards Recognition and Inclusion of Informal Workers in South Africa

    “We’re here to discuss one of the most profound challenges of our time—how to create jobs, how to increase incomes, and how to...

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  • Impact Story

    Gumutindo: Growing Toward a New Gender Balance

    Halfway up Mount Elgon, a bumpy hour’s drive from the busy centre of Mbale in eastern Uganda, the women meeting at the Konokoy Organic Coffee...

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