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This brief explores the challenges that waste pickers face with EPR and offers ideas for developing more inclusive EPR systems, based on the participatory work of the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers.
This organizing brief draws out the lessons of HBWs organizing in five countries; Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. It highlights different levels of power relationships that impact on HBWs' autonomy to organize in order to improve their lives and their livelihoods.
Globally, there are almost 76 million domestic workers and 76 per cent are women. This Statistical Brief, prepared jointly by WIEGO and ILO, used data from 155 countries and territories to examine domestic work worldwide. The overwhelming majority of domestic workers are in developing and emerging...
In Togo, according to the ILO, 92.8% of the workforce are informal. This means that a large share of the Togolese population is vulnerable against shocks and risks that might impact their livelihoods. Over the past decade, however, the country has been witnessing many positive developments in...
WIEGO’s latest Statistical Brief, Informal Workers in Chile: A Statistical Profile, provides insight into the impact COVID-19 and the pandemic response have had on workers and levels on employment and informality in a developed country. The COVID-19 crisis brought great changes to employment...
In Senegal, 84 per cent of employment is informal. This brief examines six groups of informal workers who comprised over three-quarters of total employment in 2019.
Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve their disputes with local authorities. Through the author’s personal reflection, the brief explores how we as lawyers can engage in social movement lawyering...
In this brief, we discuss the changes in Bolsa Família, the Brazilian cash-grant flagship programme, in light of the recent developments in social assistance stemming from the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis. The government has terminated the 18-year-old programme and replaced it with a new...
Brazil is a leader in recognizing its more than 281,000 informal waste pickers in recycling chains and the country’s official statistics. This Statistical Brief uses official data from 2002-2019 to examine the numbers, sex, geographic locations, ages, education levels, membership in associations and...
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.