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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice.WASTE PICKERS
COVID-19 CRISIS AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR: INFORMAL WORKERS 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 groups of Informal Workers and their households. Using a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Round 1 assessed the impact of the crisis in April 2020(the period of peak restrictions in most cities) and in June/July 2020 (when restrictions had LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
STREET VENDORS
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR National Commission on Rural Labour. By: National Commission on Rural Labour. Date: January 1991. Place of Publication: India. Publisher: Archives of Indian Labour. Go to publication.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. By: International Labour Office. Date: January 1972. Place of Publication: Geneva. Publisher: ILO. HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice.WASTE PICKERS
COVID-19 CRISIS AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR: INFORMAL WORKERS 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 groups of Informal Workers and their households. Using a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Round 1 assessed the impact of the crisis in April 2020(the period of peak restrictions in most cities) and in June/July 2020 (when restrictions had LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
STREET VENDORS
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR National Commission on Rural Labour. By: National Commission on Rural Labour. Date: January 1991. Place of Publication: India. Publisher: Archives of Indian Labour. Go to publication.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. By: International Labour Office. Date: January 1972. Place of Publication: Geneva. Publisher: ILO.ABOUT US | WIEGO
About Us. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. Photo by: Paula Bronstein/Getty ImagesReportage.
CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. COVID-19 CRISIS AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: INFORMAL WORKERS 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 groups of informal workers and their households. Using a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Round 1 assessed the impact of the crisis in April 2020 (the period of peak restrictions) and in May/June 2020 (when restrictions had been eased) in COVID-19 CRISIS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMMEDIATE IMPACTS ON COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 7 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to waste pickers based on research undertaken as part of the COVID-19 Crisis and the InformalEconomy study.
DOMESTIC WORKERS
Overview on domestic workers, numbers and challenges: More than 60 million domestic workers in the world provide essential services so others can work outside their homes. Most are women and most are from poorer sections of society. By cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the elderly, domestic workers keep markets and economiesworking.
BUILDING MOMENTUM TO EXPAND SOCIAL PROTECTION WIEGO’s Mike Rogan and Laura Alfers discuss how the pandemic has underscored the importance of social protection and public services to guarantee the livelihoods of women and men working in the informaleconomy.
INFORMAL WORKERS IN GHANA: A STATISTICAL SNAPSHOT WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 21. WIEGO. This brief details recent data on informal workers in Greater Accra, urban Ghana and Ghana overall, and looks at the data: by sex. by occupational groups (domestic workers, home-based workers, market traders, street vendors and waste pickers) by status of employment. by educational levels.STREET VENDORS
Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizingactivities.
ALLIANCE FOR ZAMBIAN INFORMAL ECONOMY ASSOCIATIONS (AZIEA The Alliance for Zambian Informal Economy Associations (AZIEA) is the national umbrella organization for associations of informal workers in Zambia. It was launched in October 2002, as the result of a project on organizing in the informal economy undertaken by the Workers’ Education Association of Zambia (WEAZ) and the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON STREET VENDORS IN INDIA: STATUS AND By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for many other workers in the city’s massive informal economy. Announced on 24th March with just 4 hours’ notice, an empty city meant that the city’s vendors immediately lost their source of income and were confronted with hunger and deprivation. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English. STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR National Commission on Rural Labour. By: National Commission on Rural Labour. Date: January 1991. Place of Publication: India. Publisher: Archives of Indian Labour. Go to publication. EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. By: International Labour Office. Date: January 1972. Place of Publication: Geneva. Publisher: ILO. HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON STREET VENDORS IN INDIA: STATUS AND By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for many other workers in the city’s massive informal economy. Announced on 24th March with just 4 hours’ notice, an empty city meant that the city’s vendors immediately lost their source of income and were confronted with hunger and deprivation. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English. STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR National Commission on Rural Labour. By: National Commission on Rural Labour. Date: January 1991. Place of Publication: India. Publisher: Archives of Indian Labour. Go to publication. EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. By: International Labour Office. Date: January 1972. Place of Publication: Geneva. Publisher: ILO. WIEGO WORKING PAPERS The WIEGO Working Paper Series features research, particularly policy-relevant research, that makes a contribution to existing knowledge about the informal economy. The series includes statistical profiles of informal employment and critical analysis of datacollection and
COVID-19 CRISIS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMMEDIATE IMPACTS ON COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 7 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to waste pickers based on research undertaken as part of the COVID-19 Crisis and the InformalEconomy study.
WASTE PICKERS
Across IEMS cities/continents, men consistently earned more than women waste pickers. A gender analysis of official data in Brazil’s RAIS database also concluded that men in waste picking earn much more than women (Crivellari et al. 2008). Waste pickers’ REDUCING WASTE IN COASTAL CITIES THROUGH INCLUSIVE The RWCC Project Waste pickers worldwide contribute significantly in preventing ocean waste pollution by recycling and reusing materials that would otherwise end up in the environment. When better organized and formally integrated into recycling systems, waste pickers can increase their contribution to environmental protection. FOR WORLD’S STREET VENDORS, LIFE MAY NEVER BE THE SAME Street vendors provide essential services in cities across the globe, particularly in Africa, Asia and South America, where residents rely on them for basic needs. They are part of a vast informal food system that keeps much of the world from going hungry. But the pandemic has devastated the livelihoods of street vendors, disrupting their ability to do their jobs and leaving many in a fight FAIR TRADE PROJECT IN UGANDA Stories of Change in Uganda In Uganda, WIEGO had two fair trade partners that delivered Business & Leadership Skills training and support: the Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative, a farmers' cooperative, and the Ugandan Federation for Alternative Trade (UGAFAT), a network of membership-based fair trade handicraft organizations. Read: Confidence Soars for Nurturing Uganda's Women NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR National Commission on Rural Labour. By: National Commission on Rural Labour. Date: January 1991. Place of Publication: India. Publisher: Archives of Indian Labour. Go to publication. STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). INTRODUCTION & TRAINING MODULE 1: UNDERSTANDING GENDER AND This is the first in a series of seven training modules titled Developing Leadership and Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair Trade.. This module focuses on the impact of gender roles on informal work, and has four main objectives: OVERVIEW OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR INCLUSION OF INFORMAL Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and social recognition of informal waste picker organizations. HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. ABOUT US | WIEGOSEE MORE ON WIEGO.ORGWASTE PICKERS
COVID-19 CRISIS AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR: INFORMAL WORKERS 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 groups of Informal Workers and their households. Using a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Round 1 assessed the impact of the crisis in April 2020(the period of peak restrictions in most cities) and in June/July 2020 (when restrictions had LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
SMALLHOLDER FARMERS
KEY DEBATES ABOUT STREET VENDINGSALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. ABOUT US | WIEGOSEE MORE ON WIEGO.ORGWASTE PICKERS
COVID-19 CRISIS AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR: INFORMAL WORKERS 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 groups of Informal Workers and their households. Using a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Round 1 assessed the impact of the crisis in April 2020(the period of peak restrictions in most cities) and in June/July 2020 (when restrictions had LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
SMALLHOLDER FARMERS
KEY DEBATES ABOUT STREET VENDINGSALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method fieldABOUT US | WIEGO
About Us. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. Photo by: Paula Bronstein/Getty ImagesReportage.
COVID-19 CRISIS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMMEDIATE IMPACTS ON COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 7 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to waste pickers based on research undertaken as part of the COVID-19 Crisis and the InformalEconomy study.
INCLUSIVE CITIES PROJECT WIEGO coordinated this multi-country project (2008-14) involving nine primary partners with activities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Inclusive Cities Project was designed to strengthen MBOs in organizing, policy analysis, and advocacy so urban informal workers had the tools necessary to make themselves heard in urban planningprocesses.
SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR INFORMAL WORKERS These basic facts are at the core of WIEGO's work around social protection. Informal is normal. Informal employment accounts for the majority (61%) of employment worldwide (as high as 89 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa and 88 per cent in southern Asia).. Social protection is a right for all workers.STREET VENDORS
Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizingactivities.
SMALLHOLDER FARMERS
The pursuit of export markets has brought them into global value chains. The term “smallholders” includes small farmers who own/control the land they farm and those who do not. Often, the term “outgrower” is used to refer to a smallholder who is in a dependent, managed relationship with an exporter. There are a numberof characteristics
CHALLENGES OF ORGANIZING INFORMAL WORKERS Insufficient Resources. Because many informal workers are poor – particularly true for women – they cannot afford dues, especially in times of economic or personal crisis. Organizations of informal workers often lack sufficient resources to cover the cost of staff, space and meetings. Where unions serve both formal and informalworkers
LINKS WITH POVERTY
Not all informal workers are poor and not all working poor are engaged in the informal economy — but there is significant overlap between informality and poverty. This page details what is known about the relationship between working in the informal economy and being poor, based on analyses of official national data commissioned by WIEGO. THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: DEFINITIONS, THEORIES AND POLICIES This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates on the informal economy. It gives a brief historical overview of the informal sector concept and related debates and then turns to recent rethinking of the concept, detailing the expanded statistical concept of informal employment and holistic conceptualSONIA M. DIAS
Sonia Maria Dias has been WIEGO’s Waste Specialist since 2008.A sociologist by training, Sonia refers to herself as a “garbologist” who specializes in solid waste management. She has been active in this field since 1985 in Brazil--long one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers into formal solid waste management systems. HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020 This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors.SALLY ROEVER
In this WIEGO podcast, Sally discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers and suggests policy responses – including cash grants and reaching out to membership-based organizations to determine needs – to help mitigate these impacts.. In this OECD podcast, Sally explains how social dialogue can broaden our understanding of work, unpack our assumptions about labour, and IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON STREET VENDORS IN INDIA: STATUS AND By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for many other workers in the city’s massive informal economy. Announced on 24th March with just 4 hours’ notice, an empty city meant that the city’s vendors immediately lost their source of income and were confronted with hunger and deprivation. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making a valuable contribution to global environmental efforts and the development of cities. STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR For members of the media: find contacts, our latest news and press releases, and information. Visit Press Room EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR For members of the media: find contacts, our latest news and press releases, and information. Visit Press Room HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020 This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors.SALLY ROEVER
In this WIEGO podcast, Sally discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers and suggests policy responses – including cash grants and reaching out to membership-based organizations to determine needs – to help mitigate these impacts.. In this OECD podcast, Sally explains how social dialogue can broaden our understanding of work, unpack our assumptions about labour, and IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON STREET VENDORS IN INDIA: STATUS AND By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for many other workers in the city’s massive informal economy. Announced on 24th March with just 4 hours’ notice, an empty city meant that the city’s vendors immediately lost their source of income and were confronted with hunger and deprivation. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making a valuable contribution to global environmental efforts and the development of cities. STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR For members of the media: find contacts, our latest news and press releases, and information. Visit Press Room EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR For members of the media: find contacts, our latest news and press releases, and information. Visit Press Room WIEGO WORKING PAPERS The WIEGO Working Paper Series features research, particularly policy-relevant research, that makes a contribution to existing knowledge about the informal economy. The series includes statistical profiles of informal employment and critical analysis of datacollection and
COVID-19 CRISIS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMMEDIATE IMPACTS ON COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 7 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to waste pickers based on research undertaken as part of the COVID-19 Crisis and the InformalEconomy study.
WASTE PICKERS
Across IEMS cities/continents, men consistently earned more than women waste pickers. A gender analysis of official data in Brazil’s RAIS database also concluded that men in waste picking earn much more than women (Crivellari et al. 2008). Waste pickers’ REDUCING WASTE IN COASTAL CITIES THROUGH INCLUSIVE The RWCC Project Waste pickers worldwide contribute significantly in preventing ocean waste pollution by recycling and reusing materials that would otherwise end up in the environment. When better organized and formally integrated into recycling systems, waste pickers can increase their contribution to environmental protection. INFORMAL WORKERS AND THE SOCIAL PROTECTION RESPONSE TO COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 2 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to COVID-19 food and cash relief measures for informal workers based on research undertaken as part of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study. INFORMAL WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA AND COVID-19: GENDERED In South Africa, informal workers in general, and women informal workers in particular, have been disproportionately hard hit by measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This policy brief provides details of the impacts on informal workers' livelihoods of pandemic restriction orders and recommends various measures to avert chronichardship.
FAIR TRADE PROJECT IN UGANDA Stories of Change in Uganda In Uganda, WIEGO had two fair trade partners that delivered Business & Leadership Skills training and support: the Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative, a farmers' cooperative, and the Ugandan Federation for Alternative Trade (UGAFAT), a network of membership-based fair trade handicraft organizations. Read: Confidence Soars for Nurturing Uganda's Women NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RURAL LABOUR For members of the media: find contacts, our latest news and press releases, and information. Visit Press RoomSONIA M. DIAS
Sonia Maria Dias has been WIEGO’s Waste Specialist since 2008.A sociologist by training, Sonia refers to herself as a “garbologist” who specializes in solid waste management. She has been active in this field since 1985 in Brazil--long one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers into formal solid waste management systems. OVERVIEW OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR INCLUSION OF INFORMAL Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and social recognition of informal waste picker organizations. HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
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CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field INFORMAL WORKERS’ ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES Discussions about health inequalities often focus on the barriers that poor people face in accessing health services. This is certainly an important aspect of the debate on health service provision. What is often missed, however, is the fact that many poor people are also workers, particularly informal workers, who may experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place of HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. ABOUT US | WIEGOSEE MORE ON WIEGO.ORGWASTE PICKERS
CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field INFORMAL WORKERS’ ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES Discussions about health inequalities often focus on the barriers that poor people face in accessing health services. This is certainly an important aspect of the debate on health service provision. What is often missed, however, is the fact that many poor people are also workers, particularly informal workers, who may experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place of WIEGO WORKING PAPERS The WIEGO Working Paper Series features research, particularly policy-relevant research, that makes a contribution to existing knowledge about the informal economy. The series includes statistical profiles of informal employment and critical analysis of datacollection and
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(Photo: Kayayei in Accra, by Jonathan Torgovnik, Getty Images Reportage) COVID-19 Situation and Activity On March 30, with 152 confirmed cases, the President of Ghana announced a two-week lockdown (described as a partial lockdown - stay at home orders exclude a list of exempted services that is more expansive than just medical and food; public transport is also allowed to operate but withSTREET VENDORS
Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizingactivities.
THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: DEFINITIONS, THEORIES AND POLICIES This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates on the informal economy. It gives a brief historical overview of the informal sector concept and related debates and then turns to recent rethinking of the concept, detailing the expanded statistical concept of informal employment and holistic conceptual POVERTY, INEQUALITY & GROWTH LINKAGES Links with Growth. It is widely assumed that the informal economy is counter-cyclical: that is expands during periods of economic crisis or stagnation and declines during periods of economic growth. It is also widely associated with low productivity – and, therefore, is seen as being a drag on the economy. Another way to think about the linkLINKS WITH POVERTY
Not all informal workers are poor and not all working poor are engaged in the informal economy — but there is significant overlap between informality and poverty. This page details what is known about the relationship between working in the informal economy and being poor, based on analyses of official national data commissioned by WIEGO.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. By: International Labour Office. Date: January 1972. Place of Publication: Geneva. Publisher: ILO. INFORMAL WORKERS’ ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES Discussions about health inequalities often focus on the barriers that poor people face in accessing health services. This is certainly an important aspect of the debate on health service provision. What is often missed, however, is the fact that many poor people are also workers, particularly informal workers, who may experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place of THE MARKETS AND BUS STATION ACT NO. 7 OF 2007 The Markets and Bus Station Act No. 7 of 2007. Date: January 2007. Title: The Markets and Bus Station Act No. 7 of 2007. Resource Title: The Markets and Bus Station Act No. 7 of 2007. This Act provides for the establishment and regulation of activities within markets and busstations in
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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. ABOUT US | WIEGOSEE MORE ON WIEGO.ORGWASTE PICKERS
CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field INFORMAL WORKERS’ ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES Discussions about health inequalities often focus on the barriers that poor people face in accessing health services. This is certainly an important aspect of the debate on health service provision. What is often missed, however, is the fact that many poor people are also workers, particularly informal workers, who may experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place of HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe that all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. ABOUT US | WIEGOSEE MORE ON WIEGO.ORGWASTE PICKERS
CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020. This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. The COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point for the recognition of informal work. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil. By: Sonia M. Dias. Date: May 2011. Subtitle: WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 2. In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making avaluable
STATISTICS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN KENYA This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. The statistics are based on analysis of the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey of 2004/6, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (at that time called Central Bureau of Statistics). INFORMAL ECONOMY AND TRADE UNIONS IN GERMANY Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field INFORMAL WORKERS’ ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES Discussions about health inequalities often focus on the barriers that poor people face in accessing health services. This is certainly an important aspect of the debate on health service provision. What is often missed, however, is the fact that many poor people are also workers, particularly informal workers, who may experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place of WIEGO WORKING PAPERS The WIEGO Working Paper Series features research, particularly policy-relevant research, that makes a contribution to existing knowledge about the informal economy. The series includes statistical profiles of informal employment and critical analysis of datacollection and
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(Photo: Kayayei in Accra, by Jonathan Torgovnik, Getty Images Reportage) COVID-19 Situation and Activity On March 30, with 152 confirmed cases, the President of Ghana announced a two-week lockdown (described as a partial lockdown - stay at home orders exclude a list of exempted services that is more expansive than just medical and food; public transport is also allowed to operate but withSTREET VENDORS
Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizingactivities.
THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: DEFINITIONS, THEORIES AND POLICIES This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates on the informal economy. It gives a brief historical overview of the informal sector concept and related debates and then turns to recent rethinking of the concept, detailing the expanded statistical concept of informal employment and holistic conceptual POVERTY, INEQUALITY & GROWTH LINKAGES Links with Growth. It is widely assumed that the informal economy is counter-cyclical: that is expands during periods of economic crisis or stagnation and declines during periods of economic growth. It is also widely associated with low productivity – and, therefore, is seen as being a drag on the economy. Another way to think about the linkLINKS WITH POVERTY
Not all informal workers are poor and not all working poor are engaged in the informal economy — but there is significant overlap between informality and poverty. This page details what is known about the relationship between working in the informal economy and being poor, based on analyses of official national data commissioned by WIEGO.SALLY ROEVER
Sally took the helm as WIEGO's International Coordinator in 2018. She has 20 years’ experience studying the ways in which laws, policies and politics — at both local and national levels — shape informal work and informal workers' organizations. This experience is based on grounded, in-depth knowledge gained through mixed-method field EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND EQUALITY: A STRATEGY FOR Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. By: International Labour Office. Date: January 1972. Place of Publication: Geneva. Publisher: ILO. INFORMAL WORKERS’ ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES Discussions about health inequalities often focus on the barriers that poor people face in accessing health services. This is certainly an important aspect of the debate on health service provision. What is often missed, however, is the fact that many poor people are also workers, particularly informal workers, who may experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place of THE MARKETS AND BUS STATION ACT NO. 7 OF 2007 The Markets and Bus Station Act No. 7 of 2007. Date: January 2007. Title: The Markets and Bus Station Act No. 7 of 2007. Resource Title: The Markets and Bus Station Act No. 7 of 2007. This Act provides for the establishment and regulation of activities within markets and busstations in
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CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020 This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making a valuable contribution to global environmental efforts and the development of cities.SALLY ROEVER
In this WIEGO podcast, Sally discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers and suggests policy responses – including cash grants and reaching out to membership-based organizations to determine needs – to help mitigate these impacts.. In this OECD podcast, Sally explains how social dialogue can broaden our understanding of work, unpack our assumptions about labour, and FAIR TRADE PROJECT IN UGANDA HOMEPAGE | WIEGOABOUT USCOVID-19OUR WORKINFORMAL ECONOMYPUBLICATIONS &RESOURCESBLOGS
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods.WASTE PICKERS
CHILD CARE AND INFORMAL WORKERS WIEGO's Child Care Initiative Child care is vital. Families, especially in the poorest households, rely on the earnings of informal women workers. A lack of quality child care contributes to gender inequalities in labour force participation rates and earnings and exacerbates high levels of poverty among women informal workers. LAW AND INFORMALITY INSIGHTS August 2020 This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus on domestic workers and street vendors. STATISTICS ON WASTE PICKERS IN BRAZIL In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited education and skills. Moreover, waste picking is increasingly recognized as making a valuable contribution to global environmental efforts and the development of cities.SALLY ROEVER
In this WIEGO podcast, Sally discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers and suggests policy responses – including cash grants and reaching out to membership-based organizations to determine needs – to help mitigate these impacts.. In this OECD podcast, Sally explains how social dialogue can broaden our understanding of work, unpack our assumptions about labour, and FAIR TRADE PROJECT IN UGANDAABOUT US | WIEGO
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. We believe all workers should have equal economic opportunities, rights, protection and voice. WIEGO WORKING PAPERS The WIEGO Working Paper Series features research, particularly policy-relevant research, that makes a contribution to existing knowledge about the informal economy. The series includes statistical profiles of informal employment and critical analysis of datacollection and
COVID-19 AND INFORMAL WORK: DISTINCT PATHWAYS OF IMPACT 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 (Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America and Eastern Europe). A unique feature of the study is that it examines the degree – and pathways – of impact on different sectors of informal workers and, within sectors, by key variables (status inSALLY ROEVER
In this WIEGO podcast, Sally discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers and suggests policy responses – including cash grants and reaching out to membership-based organizations to determine needs – to help mitigate these impacts.. In this OECD podcast, Sally explains how social dialogue can broaden our understanding of work, unpack our assumptions about labour, andACCRA | WIEGO
(Photo: Kayayei in Accra, by Jonathan Torgovnik, Getty Images Reportage) COVID-19 Situation and Activity On March 30, with 152 confirmed cases, the President of Ghana announced a two-week lockdown (described as a partial lockdown - stay at home orders exclude a list of exempted services that is more expansive than just medical and food; public transport is also allowed to operate but withSTREET VENDORS
Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces. This page explores their contributions, numbers, working conditions, the policies that affect them and their organizingactivities.
“WE MOVED MOUNTAINS”: 7 WINNING STRATEGIES THAT INFLUENCED For 25 years, WIEGO and its allies have helped informal workers voice their issues at the International Labour Conference (ILC)—which influenced the creation of international instruments that can improve informal workers’ lives and livelihoods.LINKS WITH POVERTY
Not all informal workers are poor and not all working poor are engaged in the informal economy — but there is significant overlap between informality and poverty. This page details what is known about the relationship between working in the informal economy and being poor, based on analyses of official national data commissioned by WIEGO. POVERTY, INEQUALITY & GROWTH LINKAGES The relationship between informality and poverty, inequality, and economic growth is complex. This section of the website explores what is known about these relationships. INFORMAL WORKERS’ ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES Discussions about health inequalities often focus on the barriers that poor people face in accessing health services. This is certainly an important aspect of the debate on health service provision. What is often missed, however, is the fact that many poor people are also workers, particularly informal workers, who may experience particular barriers to access based on the nature and place ofMenu
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