Region: Asia & the Pacific

VIDEO: Improving Wastepickers’ Lives in Bengaluru – Hasiru Dala Innovations

Bangalore was once known as a green city, but of recent times it has become known as a garbage city. Enter, Hasiru Dala Innovations, which...

SEWA Bharat and Street Vendors in Delhi

As a livelihood, street vending is a viscious trap of poverty, especially for women workers. It is indicative of low income, physical strain,...

AUDIO: Who are the informal workers in the cities

“Who are the informal workers in the cities” is the first episode in a radio series on informal workers in Delhi, produced by...

Ahmedabad: Home-based Worker Health & Safety

In order to understand the main occupational health challenges and hazards home-based workers face in Ahmedabad, India, a survey was undertaken...

Social Insurance and Social Protection in China

Labour Markets in China and India: Looking through a Common Prism

Delhi workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

Empowerment to Reach Markets: Didi Bahini Sewa Samaj HomeNet, Nepal

Didi Bahini Sewa Samaj supports urban home-based workers through training, saving and credit services, and collective work opportunities...

Domestic Workers: Conditions, Rights and Responsibilities

A study of part-time domestic workers in Delhi by researchers at Jagori.

Chintan: Jahan-e-kabari, June 2013

Jahan-e-Kabari is a platform for sharing ideas and news about the informal recycling sector, on issues that impact informal waste recyclers-...

Law: City of Taguig Ordinance No. 45 of 2007 (Registration of Hawkers)

Ordinance requiring the registration of hawkers and providing for the regulation thereof in Taguig City, Philippines