Region: Asia & the Pacific

SETU Africa Newsletter, Volume 1 Issue 6

This issue includes:News from SETU Africa including– Exposure visit of SEWA team to Tanzania– Ethiopian delegates visit to SEWA...

Health Access for Informal Workers In Ahmedabad, India: Subhadraben’s Story

Street Vendors’ Laws and Legal Issues in India

Street vending is not only a source of self-employment to the poor in cities and towns but also a means to provide ‘affordable’ as well as...

VIDEO: Lakshmi Narayan – Livelihoods and the New Urban Agenda

Lakshmi Narayan, co-founder of SWaCH Waste Picker Cooperative in Pune, India, speaks after a panel discussionon “Informal Livelihoods...

Thailand ILO Fact Sheet on Domestic Workers’ Rights in Thailand

Fact sheet on domestic workers rights’ under Ministerial Regulation No. 14.

The Vending of Cooked Food Ordinance, 1990

This ordinance covers the operation of all vendors of cooked foods, whether by peddling around and/or, stationary in a counter/table at a...

Domestic Worker Manual 2 (Thai) – คู่มือการใช้แรงงานประจำบ้าน

Manual for domestic workers in Thailand (only in Thai). 

VIDEO: Poornima Chikarmane (India) – Of Users, Providers and the State: Solid Waste Management in Pune, India

The Municipal Services Project conference held in April 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa brought together researchers, activists, labour,...

VIDEO: Waste Management in India – Hasiru Dala Innovaotions

Up to 76% of India’s household waste goes to landfills, open dumps and water bodies, even though 85% of it is recyclable! In April 2016,...

Formalising the Informal: Door to Door Collection at Rampir no Tekro, Vadaj, Ahmedabad

“SEWA has organized around 49,240 waste pickers and cleaners in Ahmedabad. SEWA is constantly trying modes to inclusively link our...