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Pagamento por serviços na catação Esta cartilha apresenta orientações de como precificar o trabalho dos catadores seja das organizações coletivas como cooperativas seja de catadores autônomos. Payment for recycling services This manual lays out guidelines and recommendations on how to charge for...
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...
Cartão-Memória Cata Saúde: Este cartão-memória reconta como foi o projeto de capacitação online Cata Saúde Viraliza a partir de um diálogo entre catadores reconstituindo como foi, qual a metodologia, os temas e a dinâmica de interação no projeto. Memory Card Cata Saúde This popular education memory...
As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding halt, we are writing to you as worker organizations and trade unions from South and South-East Asia garment production countries. This letter represents...
Contact: Nicole Pryor - nicole.pryor@wiego.org, Graciela Mora - graciela.mora@wiego.org, Kendra Hughes - kendra.hughes@wiego.org Garment workers from production countries call for new EU supply chain directive to stop exploitative working conditions Worker organizations and trade unions seek a new...
In January 2021, the New York City Council passed Intro 1116, a new law that added 4,000 new street food vending permits, lifting a cap on permits that had been unchanged since 1983. This Organizing Brief identifies and examines some of the factors that led up to this, and seeks to draw out broader...
This synthesis report, for the “New Forms of Social Insurance for the Economic Inclusion of Women & Young Informal Workers” research project, presents and analyzes the findings from research on informal economy worker-led social protection schemes in Nigeria, Uganda and Togo. In the context of weak...
This brief is a part of WIEGO's documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has had wide ranging impacts on the wellbeing and economic productivity of home-based workers. This brief on access to legal and affordable green energy is the first...
This brief is a part of WIEGO's documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has had wide ranging impacts on the wellbeing and economic productivity of home-based workers. It presents a three-pronged strategic framework to organize insights from MHT...
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.