Home-Based Workers

Urban informal workers and the green economy

Workers in the informal economy are playing an important role in climate change mitigation. Further, they usually leave a smaller carbon...

Delhi Declaration of Home-based Workers

Global Movement of Home-Based Workers

History of this Movement Home-based workers approached SEWA. We realized that many ’housewives’ are workers, but are invisible – even for...

Rethinking Formalization

The WIEGO Perspective Formalization of the informal economy can take different forms: registration, taxation, organization and representation,...

Home-Based Workers

Women’s Economic Empowerment – Home-Based Workers Organized Strength for Home-Based Workers was a research and advocacy collaboration...

Informal Workers and the Law

WIEGO works with four main occupational groups of informal workers: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers....

C177: The Homework Convention – It’s Time for Action!

A homeworker in Thailand prepares an order. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ReportageOn 20 June 1996, homeworkers around the world scored...

Home-Based Workers Organizing

Without strong organizations, home-based workers cannot access information about employment opportunities, workers’ rights, changing...

Habitat III

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Informal Economy Monitoring Study

A 10-city study on three continents, led by WIEGO, offered insight into the grounded reality of waste pickers, street/market traders and...