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Date: Tuesday April 11, 2023 Time: 8.00 – 9.15 AM Eastern Time Duration: 75 minutes Language: English World Bank’s Urban Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) invite you to the first in a three-part webinar...
In the wake of the pandemic, developing and middle-income countries are facing increasing pressure to improve domestic resource mobilization. As many of these countries have large informal economies, increasing the tax contributions of the informal sector has become a popular policy choice. Many of...
About the 67 th Commission on the Status of Women The 67 th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67), a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is happening from 6-17 March in a hybrid format with virtual parallel events . The main theme of...
Date: Thursday, 23 February, 2023 Time: 8.00 EST / 14.00 CET Duration: 2 hours Language: English, Spanish, French and Russian (interpretation available) Register to attend! This webinar will discuss the future challenges for different social and solidarity economy (SSE) actors (civil society, trade...
This webinar will present novel evidence on the claim that social protection is a key driver of informality and reflections from the ILO and the Inter-American Social Security Conference on the impact of these claims on social protection policy making and how they should be addressed towards...
Date: Monday, 5 February, 2023 Duration: 2 days Ngalo Buwereza Organization (NBO) will host its first National Workshop in Kampala Kolping Hotel from February 5-7, 2023, bringing together 242 recruited members. Alongside NBO, WIEGO and HomeNet Africa will support the facilitation of the workshop...
Date: Thursday, 15 December, 2022 Time: 13:00 – 14:30 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Language: English, French, Spanish, Gujarati & Thai Register to attend! Workers in the informal economy make up the global majority of workers across the world, yet generally experience hugely inadequate and...
Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 The "Investing in Decent Work for Domestic Workers, Ratification and Implementation of C189 and C190" workshop will take place in October 2022 in Jamaica. It will be h osted by the Jamaica Household Workers Union (JHWU), an IDWF affiliate in Jamaica, alongside...
Join UNRISD and WIEGO for a global, virtual launch event for the book "Between Fault Lines and Front Lines—Shifting Power in an Unequal World", which explores the roles of elites and institutions of power in the deepening of social and economic cleavages across the globe.
On July 19, 2022, WIEGO will launch the new volume, Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South, where the editors and contributors seek to answer the question of what a new social contract means, integrating social contract theory with the experiences of organizations of informal...
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.