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This booklet shows how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting workers in informal employment in Accra, Ghana. It draws on exploratory research conducted with kayayei (headporters), market traders, street vendors, and waste pickers. Data was collected by WIEGO in 6 focus groups with 31 workers: 10...
Globally, 260 million women and men produce goods or provide services from in or around their homes: 86% (more than 224 million workers) in developing and emerging countries and 14% (more than 35 million workers) in developed countries. This flyer contains key points on the geographic spread of home...
WIEGO and the IDWF partnered to write this toolkit to support IDWF affiliates in their efforts to make C189 real for domestic workers. The toolkit is a training manual for organizers on C189, which contains the following information: “Convention 189: what is it?”: a worker-friendly summary of the...
This tool explains how WIEGO documents its outcomes, why they matter (their significance) and what role WIEGO or partners played in influencing the actors in the outcomes (the contribution). The video at this link provides an overall explanation: How is an outcome statement formulated?
In your day to day work you notice changes that others are making, influenced by WIEGO. How do you capture these to support WIEGO’s learning? This tool provides an explanation of what to look for, and a template for documenting outcomes, why they matter (their significance) and how WIEGO or WIEGO...
You want to know if and why your training or capacity-building event worked well: Did it motivate participants? Did it strengthen participants’ knowledge and confidence to use that knowledge? Did participants then actually use that knowledge or new relationships after they leave? And did it help...
This tool supports WIEGO programme teams in deliberately seeking to document the influence of our research, that is, outcomes our research has contributed towards. The pathways of influence of research findings are complex and unpredictable. The tool considers what we know about how research...
This Tool 7 is an online version of Tool 5 of the WIEGO MLE Toolkit: How to conduct a participatory workshop: harvesting outcomes . That tool discusses the rationale and gives illustrative examples of running a participatory OH workshop, and these are not repeated here. Please read them first. Tool...
A great way to find out if WIEGO’s interventions –training or other kinds of support to Nets and MBOs– have worked well, or if people have used our tools and materials, is to engage them in a follow-up evaluation workshop. This Tool 5 takes you through the process of supporting participants to...
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.