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  • WP19 Working Papers

    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...

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  • Organization

    HomeNet Thailand

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

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  • Domestic workers at the International Labour Conference in Geneva Post

    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,...

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  • Pushpa Rathod Post
    Public and Workplace Services December 10, 2019

    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...

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  • Waste picker Ananya Songsai sorts plastic at her Bangkok home. By Paula Bronstein, Getty Images Dec 02 2019

    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...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    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...

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  • Domestic worker in Joburg, South Africa Post
    Statistics November 05, 2019

    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...

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  • Workers create their own master plan. Post
    Access to Public Space October 29, 2019

    “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...

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  • SEWA child care Post
    Child Care October 05, 2019

    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,...

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  • WIEGO Resource Document No. 12 Resource Documents

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

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