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Ela Ramesh Bhatt has been called a gentle revolutionary. Both her ideas and her actions were revolutionary. She gave the world the path with which to reach out and change the lives of the poorest and she called it “Struggle and Development”. This path has been replicated not only in Gujarat where...
Many an epithet has been used to celebrate her—the gentle revolutionary, the Mahatma of “shramjeevi” (working) women, and more. For us, her SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association) sisters, and thousands across India and the globe, Ela Bhatt was simply “ben” (sister).
Excerpt from the opinion piece, It's Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center by Darren Walker (president of the Ford Foundation) and Sally Roever (International Coordinator, WIEGO) placed in TIME’s Economy section on November 25, 2021. "Informal work is the essential...
Alors que le président Macky Sall lance officiellement ce jour PROMOGED, le projet de transformation de la décharge de Mbeubeuss, WIEGO alerte dans ce tribune sur la nécessité de sécuriser les moyens de subsistance des récupératrice-eur-s de la plus grande décharge d’Afrique de l’Ouest.
“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.”
In an article in The Conversation, WIEGO's Mike Rogan and Caroline Skinner argue that job losses show that support for women informal workers is urgent. In South Africa, recent data suggest that under strict lockdown in April, two-thirds of the 3 million people who lost their jobs were women. Income...
This blog by Marty Chen and Joann Vanek was the third in a blog series (and twitter handle) Deliver 2030, facilitated by the Overseas Development Institute answering the question: How can we deliver on the SDGs? The blog featured submissions by some of the world’s biggest influencers in the...
This blog, written by Ghada Abdel Tawab, highlights the efforts of WIEGO and the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) to challenge the dominant narrative on informal work and suggest alternative approaches to formalizing and protecting informal workers. From the blog: "Worldwide, millions of...
This article was written by Ratna Gill, based on a panel she attended at the Othering & Belonging Conference by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society.
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.