All posts in Africa
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Policy Briefs
Informal Work in South Africa and COVID-19: Gendered Impacts and Priority Interventions
In South Africa, informal workers in general, and women informal workers in particular, have been disproportionately hard hit by measures...
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Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19
Background There is widespread recognition, both internationally and in South Africa, that the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 have...
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Research Reports
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Accra, Ghana
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...
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Advocacy Materials
Mesures visant à lutter contre la violence basée sur le genre dans le contexte de la pandémie mondiale
In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...
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Advocacy Materials
Medidas para hacer frente a la violencia de género en medio de la pandemia mundial
In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...
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Advocacy Materials
Measures to tackle gender-based violence amid the global pandemic
In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based...
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Research Reports
The Recognition and Protection of Informal Traders in COVID-19 Laws: Lessons from Africa
This paper analyses the COVID-19 laws of 41 Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African countries with an informal trading lens. It considers...
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Building Collective Power November 23, 2020Les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel prévoient un long chemin vers la reprise – à moins que les gouvernements passent à l’action –
Les informations recueillies lors du premier cycle de l’étude sur la crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle menée par WIEGO dans 12...
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Building Collective Power November 22, 2020
Informal Workers See a Long Road to Recovery Ahead — Unless Governments Act
Data from the first round of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study in 12 cities point to three common patterns across...
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Building Collective Power November 22, 2020
Trabajadoras y trabajadores en empleo informal ven un largo camino hacia la recuperación, a menos que los gobiernos actúen
Los datos arrojados por la primera fase del estudio sobre la crisis de la COVID-19 y la economía informal, dirigido por WIEGO en 12 ciudades,...
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