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Happy New Year to one and all. As we reflect on 2020, I hope that the year’s unprecedented challenges were accompanied by moments that could bring some measure of solace and hope for a more just and peaceful future.
WIEGO's International Coordinator, Sally Roever, looks back on 2020 and talks about how lessons learnt last year can be used to improve working conditions for informal workers in 2021.
A new social contract for informal workers: Bridging social protection and economic inclusion
“Someone from the public or the government doesn’t wake up one morning and think ‘Let’s think about the waste pickers’,” she says. “These gains come from years and years of struggle.”
Sixty per cent of the world’s workforce consists of informal workers. Their voices are crucial to unpack the hardship, injustice, and possibility for transformation as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
This paper analyses the COVID-19 laws of 41 Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African countries with an informal trading lens. It considers the implications of these laws for informal traders' continuity of work, measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and social dialogue and engagement with...
It has been a year like no other. As the pandemic encompassed large swathes of the world, calls for staying home starkly emphasized the inequalities in our society. The crisis has a devastating impact on the world’s two billion informal workers. Drawn from WIEGO’s work with informal workers...
In this brief, we look at three countries, Indonesia, New Zealand and South Africa, that have responded to the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence at home and in the workplace in timely and innovative ways, exploring which elements of their approach could offer best practice lessons for other...
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 2 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to COVID-19 food and cash relief measures for informal workers based on research undertaken as part of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study. Español Français
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.