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  • Global Reports

    Older Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 5 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to older informal workers...

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  • Policy Briefs

    The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bengali)

    Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...

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  • Research Reports

    Насилие и неформальная занятость

    В данной информационной записке основное внимание уделяется причинам и последствиям насилия, с которыми сталкиваются неформально занятые...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Domestic Workers, Risk & Social Protection in Delhi National Capital Region

    Delhi, India’s capital and a bustling metropolis, is home to many migrant workers from across the country. For most women migrants, domestic...

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  • Global Reports

    Informal Workers and the Social Protection Response to COVID-19: Who got relief? How? And did it make a difference?

    Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to COVID-19 food and cash relief measures for informal workers based on research undertaken...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Domestic Workers, Risk and Social Protection in Nepal

    Most domestic workers in Nepal are employed in live-out arrangements with multiple employers while others, many of them adolescent girls,...

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  • Policy Briefs

    The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...

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  • WIEGO Briefing Note on Violence at Work

    The ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190), and the accompanying Recommendation (R206) were adopted in 2019. This briefing...

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  • Research Reports

    Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements (March 2020)

    This brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19. There is heightened...

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  • women working with child on lap Research Reports

    Extending childcare services to workers in the informal economy: Policy lessons from country experiences

    This brief presents a new typology of childcare services available to workers in the informal economy and their young children between 0-3...

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