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  • Resource Documents

    Home-Based Workers’ Access to Social Protection: Lessons Learned from the IDPoor Programme in Cambodia

    This joint WIEGO and HomeNet Cambodia study adds to the limited research on home-based workers and their access to social-protection programmes...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

    This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City

    Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City  WIEGO organized a dialogue on economic recovery for the informal...

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  • Hindustan Times logo News

    Mirai Chatterjee pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt

    Many an epithet has been used to celebrate her—the gentle revolutionary, the Mahatma of “shramjeevi” (working) women, and more. For us, her SEWA (Self-Employed...

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  • The Indian Express logo News

    Renana Jhabvala pays tribute to Ela Ramesh Bhatt

    Ela Ramesh Bhatt has been called a gentle revolutionary. Both her ideas and her actions were revolutionary. She gave the world the path with...

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  • Resource Documents

    Home-Based Work during the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities

    In both mid-2020 and mid-2021, WIEGO assessed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers and their households,...

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    Subverting Master Planning to Advance Informal Worker Interests: Lessons from Delhi

    Heeding the United Nations call to share transformative approaches to local action on World Cities Day, Focal Cities Coordinator Jenna Harvey...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Claiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in Delhi

    Master plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of...

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  • Law & Informality Highlights - September 2022 Law & Informality Insights

    A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers

    This publication – A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers...

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  • Thumbnail The Struggle for the Soul of Bhadra Chowk – A Heritage Plaza or Heritage Market? Resource Documents

    The Struggle for the Soul of Bhadra Chowk – A Heritage Plaza or Heritage Market? A Case Study from Ahmedabad, India

    This case study documents the history of the struggle by street vendors, with SEWA’s support, to retain their right to vend – and their natural...

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