Asia & the Pacific

Home-Based Workers and Urban Plans, Policies and Practice: India in Comparative Perspective

This paper explores the impact of local government policies and urban plans on home-based workers in India and elsewhere. It presents recent...

HomeNet Thailand

HomeNet Thailand was founded in 1999 as an NGO to support home-based workers across Thailand. Today, HomeNet Thailand consists of:

Looking Back at 2019: Informal Workers Demanded Change — and Won

In 2019, informal workers made some noise — in their home cities and at the highest global change-making bodies. They took to the streets,...

How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers

Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...

Technical Deep Dive: Improving Infrastructure, Services and Livelihoods in Low Income Urban Settlements

• December 2, 2019 - December 6, 2019
• Tokyo, Japan

WIEGO’s Marty Chen, Jenna Harvey and Sonia Dias brought expertise on urban informal livelihoods and presented case studies on inclusive...

Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

City-level statistical snapshots for South Africa and Thailand available for the first time

WIEGO’s Statistics Programme is launching a new set of Statistical Briefs that provide key indicators of informal employment and key...

“I, Too, am Delhi”: People’s Campaign Calls for Inclusion in Indian Capital’s Master Plan

India’s capital city is preparing its roadmap for the future – a new master planning document that sets out the vision for Delhi for two...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

Bangkok’s Street Vending Ban: A Summary of the Research on the Social and Economic Impacts