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City/Country Level Reports
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
Informal workers in and around Accra’s markets – street vendors, market traders and kayayei – provide affordable goods and services and form...
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Technical Briefs
Inclusive Public Space Planning & Design: Lessons from Asiye eTafuleni, Durban, South Africa.
This document reflects on the work of Asiye eTafuleni, a non-profit organization operating out of inner-city Durban, South Africa. Asiye...
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City/Country Level Reports
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
This report presents the Durban, South Africa, findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study that...
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City/Country Level Reports
COVID-19 Crisis and Street Vendors in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
Between 10,000 and 20,000 New Yorkers make their living selling food or merchandise on the city’s streets. This report presents the NYC Street...
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Policy/Position Documents
Position Paper on Inequalities and the World of Work, prepared for the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference
Despite a pre-pandemic modest decrease in the number of people living in extreme poverty, the number of extremely poor increased by about...
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Research Reports
Enabling Social Protection within the Informal Economy: Lessons from Worker-led Schemes in Nigeria, Uganda and Togo
This synthesis report, for the “New Forms of Social Insurance for the Economic Inclusion of Women & Young Informal Workers” research...
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Resource Documents
The Recognition and Protection of Informal Traders in COVID-19 Laws: Lessons from Asia
This analysis covers COVID-19 laws in seven Asian countries, namely, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and...
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Advocacy Materials
Social Protection for Informal Workers: Trends and Changes – Social Protection Briefing Note No. 2
Many different organizations and specialists talk about universal social protection. But their vision of how to achieve it is very different....
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Project
Home as Workplace
For an estimated 260 million home-based workers around the world, their home doubles as their workplace. Homes are also used as work or storage...
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Organizing Briefs
Winning a Right to the Sidewalks: Street Vendors in New York
This Brief seeks to identify and examine certain factors that led to the proposal to reform New York’s street vending legislation that...
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