Occupational Group: Home-Based Workers

Sewing the Seams: Cape Town Homeworkers Pull Together as COVID-19 Halts Earnings

Homeworkers in the garment industry are the most vulnerable and exploited link in the supply chain and Cape Town homeworker Chevonne Jacobs...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Pleven, Bulgaria

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study: City Fact Sheets

City Fact Sheets: 1 – Accra (Ghana) COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights 1: Informal Workers See a Long Road to Recovery Ahead — Unless Governments Act

Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to lockdown effects on workers’ earnings and relief measures for informal workers...

Thai: Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

VimoSEWA Case Study

SEWA Social Security Case Studies

Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile

In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile

In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour...

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study

WIEGO and our partners are listening long and hard to informal workers through our multi-city study: COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy....