Region: India

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...

Union Territory of Lakadshweep’ Street Vendors Rules, 2015

This document contains rules that govern street vending in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep’, that are based on the Protection of...

Episode 12

This is the twelfth episode in a radio series on informal workers in Delhi, produced by WIEGO and originally aired on FM Rainbow.

Garment Makers

Booklet entitled Self-Employed Women: A Profile of SEWA’s Membership. The booklet features a write-up on the garment workers among SEWA’s...

Measuring Informality of Employment in Urban India

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

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers Newsletter

This webpage includes links to current and past newsletters.

Inaugural Speech

Speech given at the policy conference on homebased workers in South Asia co-organized by SEWA and UNIFEM entitled “Women, Work and...

IEMS Handout

Urb.im – Bangalore’s domestic workers have paved new pathways in gaining recognition and rights

This blog post about Bangalore’s domestic workers was written by WIEGO’s writer/editor, Carlin Carr.