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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Focal Cities Project, in collaboration with its partners and informal workers’ organizations, has organized a public dialogue to deliberate on the use of public spaces by informal workers in Accra. The public dialogue aimed to provide a forum for key stakeholders in…
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) has been recognised at the World Economic Forum, winning the Social Innovator of the Year 2023 Award, at the Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards, for its leading work addressing the complex issues facing the world’s two billion workers in informal employment. WIEGO…
‘An original and insightful contribution to rethinking the social contract. Instead of prescribing from above, the authors redirect attention to the perspective of informal workers, to their needs, demands and agency, and to the new realities of informality exposed by COVID-19, digital employment, and new forms of collective action.’ – Kate Meagher, London School of Economics, UK
Surveying the World of Informal Work: Interview with Sally Roever 13.Jan.2021 9:00 AM . 9 min read Sally Roever is the International Coordinator of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), which is a global coalition devoted to “empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods.” Can you give us a brief overview of the world of informal work today? What are the industries, sectors, and regions where it's most prevalent? The first thing to say is that although informal work is understood in many different w...
news Coronavirus: Asian women pay the price of pandemic as Covid-19 ravages economies, jobs Raquel Carvalho and Elyssa Lopez Single mothers and women living in low income households have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Photo: Maro Enriquez Michelle de Guzman has had her life upended by the coronavirus pandemic. In March, just as the number of cases in the Philippines began to grow, she was managing an upscale restaurant in Quezon City that was about to undergo a change of ownership. She had run the restaurant's day-to-day operations for more than a year and was lo...