
All posts in Africa
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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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Access to Public Space August 12, 2019For 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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PostAugust 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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NewsCollective 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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