All posts in Urban Policies Programme
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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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Fact Sheets/Infographics
Building Savda Ghevra: A story of resettlement in Delhi
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Fact Sheets/Infographics
Waste Warriors of Delhi: Locating waste picker communities across the city
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Fact Sheets/Infographics
Home as place of work: Locating the home-based workers of Delhi
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Resource Documents
O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores e vendedores ambulantes na redução da poluição do litoral durante o carnaval de Salvador da Bahia, Brasil
English Thomas, Brittany A., Sonia M. Dias, Cynthia Deng e Mariana Pereira Guimarães. 2021. O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores...
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Research Reports
COVID-19 Crisis: Understanding the Immediate Impacts on Waste Pickers
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 7 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to waste pickers based...
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Working Papers
COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World
This paper presents findings from a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across 5 regions of the world...
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Research Reports
Essential, But Unprotected: How Have Informal Workers Navigated the Health Risks of the Pandemic?
La crisis de la COVID-19 y la Economía informal Conclusiones principales y recomendaciones de políticas relativas a los riesgos sanitarios...
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Research Reports
Internal Migrants in the Informal Economy: COVID-19 Lessons
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 6 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to internal migrants in...
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