Region: India

“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,...

Technology & Urban Informal Workers

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

Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

Providing Sustainable Livelihood For Women through Social Enterprise: Maid In IndiaThe Development Review

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Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...