Asia & the Pacific

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

Bangkok Street Vending Ban 2016

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.