Resource Documents
Taking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally...
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Resource Documents
Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and...
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Resource Documents
Key Findings Domestic workers’ ability to work and earn an income were negatively impacted throughout the pandemic and particularly at the...
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News
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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News
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
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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Post
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
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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Resource Documents
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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Research Reports
The SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres...
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