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  • Technical Briefs

    Implementing ILO R204 on the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy: Lessons from South Africa’s Experience

    The responsibility for implementation of the International Labour Organization’s Recommendation 204 concerning the Transition from the Informal...

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  • Briefs

    Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

    The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...

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  • Resource Documents

    Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities

    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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    Child Care in Markets

    Workers in informal employment often lack access to high quality public services, including child-care services. Lack of child-care support...

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  • Street vendor Kwa Mashu, Durban Technical Briefs

    Inclusive Public Space Planning & Design: Lessons from Asiye eTafuleni, Durban, South Africa.

    This document reflects on the work of Asiye eTafuleni, a non-profit organization operating out of inner-city Durban, South Africa. Asiye...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

    This report presents the Durban, South Africa, findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study that...

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  • Waste Picker of Mushroomville with his collected materials News
    Building Collective Power

    Waste pickers in Tshwane (Pretoria) face displacement and loss of livelihoods as a result of evictions

    WIEGO and its affiliates stand in solidarity with the 180 waste pickers in Mushroomville who were given notice of eviction on 15th November...

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  • Resource Documents

    Women Informal Traders and Child Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from Accra, Durban and Nakuru

    Key Points The public health measures taken to contain the pandemic coupled with the economic slowdown have significantly reduced women informal...

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  • TV interview on COVID-19 impacts on informal workers in South Africa video thumbnail News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study

    TV interview on lockdown’s impact on informal workers in South Africa

    WIEGO’s Urban Policies Research Director, Caroline Skinner, spoke with eNCA’s Uveka Rangappa on March 16 about the impact of...

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  • Romilla Chetty—a third-generation trader in Durban’s Warwick Junction, South Africa Worker Story

    Romilla Chetty, the first woman in her family to run the vendor business in South Africa

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