Creating “cities for all” requires more than one-size-fits-all regulation
Study shows informal workers in the Global South perceive regulations as being both positive and negativeFrom street vending permits to permissions...
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What’s the legal recourse for street vendor evictions?
WIEGO’s law team discusses how administrative law can empower and protect informal workers in urban public spaces
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Joburg’s Reclaimers Win Important First Victory in Fight Against Privatization
On July 13, hundreds of Johannesburg’s informal waste pickers (known locally as “reclaimers”) — men and women who have been collecting, separating,...
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Photo Essay: Inside Efforts to Strengthen Leadership among Women Waste Pickers
WIEGO’s Organizing and Representation Programme and Urban Policies Programme works with waste picker organizations in South Africa and Brazil...
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Can informal employment actually reduce poverty?
Findings from South Africa suggest that supporting informal employment could help countries reach development goals by Mike Rogan &...
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Worker’s Story: Sizakele Ncube’s new sewing machine brings both improved income and new worries
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been exploring technologies used by informal workers to improve their productivity and some of the challenges...
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Tecnología en la base de la pirámide económica: ¿Qué impide que llegue a los trabajadores y trabajadoras en empleo informal?
Por Kendra Hughes
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Technology at the bottom of the economic pyramid: What’s inhibiting uptake by informal workers?
By Kendra Hughes
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A Union for All: Dar es Salaam’s Mchikichini market vendors join hands with formal workers in model solidarity
By Carlin Carr
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Five Case Studies that Illustrate Steps Toward an Inclusive City
Creating “inclusive cities” is a hot topic right now. Habitat III has just wound up in Quito, Ecuador – the UN’s urban conference that brought...
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