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Abstract: South African low-income communities face many challenges (e.g., insufficient housing, poor service delivery, and abject poverty); additionally, a silent challenge of pest infestation plagues these areas resulting in disease risks, nuisances, and stigma. Consequently, an enterprising urban...
Abstract: Most in the Economic Community of West African States region are employed in the informal sector. While the informal sector plays a significant role in the region’s economy, policymakers and the scientific community have long neglected it. To better understand informal-sector work...
OIT Documentos de política de protección social. Documento 16 Resumen: Este documento de trabajo: (i) presenta una visión general de la situación de la seguridad social para el trabajo doméstico en 163 países; (ii) analiza las tendencias, políticas y brechas en la cobertura legal y efectiva de la...
The association between work and health has not been well explored in the context of economically developing countries, largely due to inadequate data. The objective of this study was to identify the association between informal wage work and health in South Africa using a newly available data set...
Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance : E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management challenges. One of the unintended outcomes of this growth in the developing world is the increasing presence of informal e-waste recyclers, providing...
Este estudio cualitativo que reúne los hallazgos de una investigación sobre el acceso a servicios de salud y posible acceso a seguridad social realizada a partir de grupos focales con organizaciones de trabajadores en empleo informal de siete sectores ocupacionales.
Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it may hold important policy lessons for other countries where the informal economy is large and growing and where informal workers are excluded from existing...
Abstract: The presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among vulnerable populations is a rarely discussed subject. Thus, the present cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to analyse the health conditions and access to public health services of 268 waste pickers in southern Brazil...
This paper analyzes some of India’s most prominent heath insurance schemes from the perspective of poor informal women workers, a specific focus rising from the fact that women informal workers tend to have special needs and poorer health than their male counterparts. The scheme differ in their...
This policy brief draws out lessons from the Thai health reform process which are relevant to both policy makers and organizations of informal workers. The Thai experience shows that informal worker organizations can gain much from creating alliances with other social movement as long as they retain...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.