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This publication was jointly developed by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The policy brief builds on UNICEF’s call to action for governments and businesses to redesign the workplaces of the future and enable parents and car...
Con datos de la primera ronda de un estudio longitudinal con métodos mixtos realizado en junio y julio de 2020 por la red WIEGO en colaboración con organizaciones de personas trabajadoras informales de doce ciudades, se evalúa el impacto de la actual crisis pandémica multidimensional (sanitaria, económica y de cuidados) en las responsabilidades de...
Avec la pandémie de COVID‐19, la crise sanitaire et économique s'est doublée d'une crise du travail de soins. Tous les travailleurs en ont pâti, y compris dans l'économie informelle. Les auteurs exploitent les résultats d'une étude longitudinale menée par le réseau WIEGO en juin‐juillet 2020 auprès de travailleurs informels de douze villes. Ils obs...
The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to a health, economic and care crisis for all workers including those in the informal economy. This article draws on data from the first round of a mixed‐methods longitudinal study conducted (in June 2020) by the research advocacy network Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) in partnership wi...
The publication was jointly developed by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The policy brief builds on UNICEF's call to action for governments and businesses to redesign the workplaces of the future and enable parents and care...
The publication was jointly developed by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The policy brief builds on UNICEF's call to action for governments and businesses to redesign the workplaces of the future and enable parents and care...
The inclusion of a specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target (5.4) addressing women’s and girls’ unequal responsibility for unpaid care work is cited, by feminists and women’s rights organisations, as progress compared to the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Governments are tasked with rolling out public services and social...
There has been increasing recognition of the growth of informal employment in the global South and North. Most informal work is precarious and low paid, with workers having little or no access to social protection. It is sometimes suggested that an approach that moves away from productivism – the idea of work as a pathway to access social protectio...
This article focuses on policy advocacy programmes in Nepal and Nigeria, instigated by ActionAid International with local women's rights organisations and non-government organisations, and supported by the Institute of Development Studies, UK. These programmes aimed to challenge women's unequal responsibility for care work and to influence policyma...
ActionAid International implemented an action-research programme on women's unpaid care work in rural Nepal from March 2011 to December 2012. This social empowerment methodology, Reflect, enabled 106 women to gain recognition for their unpaid care work through their own collection of time-use data. The literacy skills women acquired facilitated gre...
