"Domestic Workers in the city" is the third episode in a radio series on informal workers in Delhi, produced by WIEGO and originally aired on FM Rainbow.

Ep 3: Domestic Workers in the city

How Bangalore’s itinerant waste pickers transformed into “robust entrepreneurs”

The WIEGO Pyramid and Why it Matters: Mike Rogan

WIEGO founder Marty Chen gave the keynote address at WIEGO's General Assembly  in Johannesburg in November, 2018. 

In this excerpt, Marty talks about the progress made by informal workers in creating a more just world over the past 20 years, about the significant challenges that remain, and about her optimism for the future.

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Rosheda Muller Describes How She Used Admin Law Following SA Workshop

Caroline Skinner, WIEGO's Urban Research Director, discusses the launch of our new e-book, Street Vendors and Public Space: Essential insights on key trends and solutions. She provides important global context, identifies pressing issues and takes us through real-world solutions from India, Liberia, Mexico, and South Africa.

Interview with Caroline Skinner on Street Vendors and Public Space - WIEGO Blog

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In this interview, WIEGO's street vendor expert, Caroline Skinner, discusses the essential role the informal food system -- from producers to transporters to vendors -- in ensuring access to fresh fruits, vegetables and other foods.

Food Security and Street Vendors During COVID-19: Interview with WIEGO's Caroline Skinner

WIEGO's Waste Picker expert, Sonia Dias, explains the role waste pickers play in keeping many cities across the Global South clean by collecting and recycling waste. With COVID-19, their essential work has become more important and more hazardous. She discusses some of the current challenges and how policymakers need to work with waste pickers to make conditions safer for them to continue their livelihoods where possible.

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Waste Pickers and COVID-19: An Interview with WIEGO's Sonia Dias

Rachel Moussié (Deputy Director, Social Protection Programme, WIEGO) presented data from WIEGO's rapid assessment  interviews and summarized the situation of informal workers at a virtual round-table on April 16, 2020, hosted by the International Centre for Tax and Development. More here: https://www.ictd.ac/news/covid-19-informal-economy-event-summary-resources/

Rachel Moussié (WIEGO's Deputy Director, Social Protection): Informal workers & COVID-19

Rosheda Muller, president of the South African Informal Traders Association (SAITA), describes how she used what she'd learned in an administrative law workshop to fight a municipal eviction.

2019 02 Rosheda Muller - SAITA On How She Used Admin Law Following SA Workshop

From 2013-15, training helped women handicraft producers in Uganda and Kenya build incomes, leadership abilities and confidence. Hear what they say about their changed lives — and find out how others can gain from this training.

Training FT Producers - 2015 audio documentary WIEGO

WIEGO is a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. WIEGO creates change by  expanding the knowledge base on the informal economy, and by working with worker organizations to build their capacity to influence local, national and international policies.

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