Region: 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...

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...

Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study

This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-based Workers in Lahore, Pakistan

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-based Workers in Lahore, Pakistan

The study is designed to provide credible, grounded evidence of the range of driving forces, both positive and negative, that affect the...