Pakistan

The Journey Towards Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

Home-based workers in Pakistan’s Sindh province achieved a historic victory with legislation that gives approximately 5 million home-based...

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...

Open Letter to European Union Policymakers

As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding...

Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile

In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

Urdu Translation

Labour Policy 2010

The Urban Informal Workforce: Home-Based Workers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: Statistics and Trends

This report presents statistics and trends on home-based workers in Pakistan, based on data from the Labour Force Survey for two points in...

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the home-based work sector in...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers

This is the Executive Summary of the full Sector Report that synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of...