Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (Wiego)

WIEGO is a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. This section presents a summary of WIEGO – and of the informal workers and their organizations who are the focus of WIEGO’s work.

One publication

• The Informal Economy Revisited Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

  Marty Chen, Françoise Carré, Routledge, London, UK, July 2020

  Wiego

A pedagogical tool

• Diagramme : Segmentation of Informal Employment : the Pyramid of Risk

  WIEGO

  2015

  Wiego

5 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis: A global picture of sudden impact and long-term risk

  WIEGO, July 2020

  Wiego

• E-book : Street Vendors and Public Space. Essential insights on key trends and solutions.

  February 2020

  Wiego

• Supporting Informal Workers in Public Space: A Toolkit for Local Authorities -

  Caroline .Skinner, Sarah Orleans Reed, Jenna Harvey, August 2018

  Wiego

• Building Inclusive Cities: Highlights from the Inclusive Cities Project

  Edited by Rhonda Douglas, October 2017

  Wiego

  Español

• Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground

  Field Actions Science Report. Special issue 6 Reconcling Poverty eradication and Protecion of the environment

  Sonia María Dias, 2012

  Wiego

An article

• How a pyramid sketch redefined the informal economy — and the new data that is putting that 20-year-old idea to the test

  4963, November 2018

  Wiego