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Impact Of Covid-19 On Women Workers In The Urban Informal Economy In Uganda And Kenya
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022)Globally, 2 billion of the world’s employed population aged 15 and older work informally, representing 61.2 percent of global employment, with the vast majority of employment in Africa (85.8 percent) being informal (ILO, ... -
Transforming Work for Women in the Informal Economy: Gaps And Opportunities For Social Protection In Uganda
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022-02)This paper outlines the role of social protection mechanisms in safeguarding individuals' livelihoods while also providing safety nets necessary to help them cope with or respond to risks, emergencies, or crises. It ... -
La crisis de la COVID-19 y la economía informal en Lima, Perú: impactos duraderos y una agenda para la recuperación
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2021-12)La crisis del COVID-19 y la economía informal es un estudio longitudinal llevado a cabo por WIEGO que evalúa los efectos de la crisis del COVID-19 en ciertos grupos ocupacionales de personas trabajadoras en empleo informal ... -
Priorities for a fair recovery from COVID-19 in Latin America
(Southern Voice, 2021-11-23)On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak could be characterised as a pandemic. Since then, Latin American countries have worked to mitigate the spread of the virus and curb ... -
Priorities for a Fair Recovery from COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Southern Voice, 2021-10)The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world and shaken it. At the time of writing this paper, the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 dashboard reports 173,609,772 confirmed cases of COVID-19 including 3,742,653 deaths. In ... -
Priorities for a Fair Recovery from COVID-19 in South Asia
(Southern Voice, 2021-09-30)This study identifies a set of priorities that South Asia must focus on to ensure a fair recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Undoubtedly, the socio-economic fallout from the pandemic has been considerably great. The ... -
Informality and the Pandemic - Lives of Domestic Workers and Street Vendors in Delhi During Covid-19
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022)COVID-19 has deepened existing social inequalities and heightened the risks for economic precarity, gender based violence as well as aggravated the lack of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights among marginalized ... -
COVID-19 Policies and Women in Informal Work in India - A REBUILD Scoping Report
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought a global socio-economic crisis, with profound implications for the wellbeing of individuals, households and communities. It has further deepened existing social inequalities, heightened ... -
The Care Economy in the New Social Contract
(Southern Voice, 2022-03)Care work, whether paid or unpaid, supports all economic activities in societies on a global scale. However, in Latin America, as illustrated in Figure 1, care provision tends to fall disproportionately on households, with ... -
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Pleven, Bulgaria
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2020-12)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 ... -
La crisis del COVID-19 y la economía informal en Ciudad de México, México: Impactos persistentes y una agenda para la recuperación
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2021-12)La crisis del COVID-19 y la economía informal es un estudio longitudinal llevado a cabo por WIEGO que evalúa los efectos de la crisis del COVID-19 en ciertos grupos ocupacionales de personas trabajadoras en empleo informal ... -
La crise de la COVID-19 et l'économie informelle à Dakar, Sénégal : impacts durables et agenda de redressement
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2022-02)La crise de la COVID-19 et l'économie informelle est une étude longitudinale de WIEGO qui évalue l'impact de la crise de la COVID-19 sur certains groupes de travailleur·euse·s de l’informel et leurs ménages. S'appuyant sur ... -
COVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities – Executive Summary
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2022-06)Key findings include: Earnings for informal workers interviewed are still far below their pre-pandemic levels. By mid-2021, the typical worker was only earning 64%2 of her/his pre-COVID-19 earnings. Most respondents ... -
Long Economic Covid for the World’s Working Class - Infographic
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2022-06)WIEGO, alongside membership organizations of the working poor, has been monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers around the world. In mid-2020, interviews were conducted with domestic workers, ... -
COVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities: Recovery Pathways Amidst Continued Crisis
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2022-06)The majority of the global workforce – 61% – is informal and has been disproportionately impacted by measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and by the accompanying economic downturn. The focus on aggregate job and ... -
India’s Policy Response to COVID-19 and the Gendered Impact on Urban Informal Workers in Delhi NCR: Thematic Brief 6: Policy Responses and Impact on Gender-Based Violence
(International Center for Research on Women, 2022)In India, even prior to the pandemic, NFHS-4 data suggested that around 33% of ever-married women experienced physical, sexual and/or emotional violence in their lives. While this estimate is for 2015-16, COVID-19-induced ... -
India’s Policy Response to COVID-19 and the Gendered Impact on Urban Informal Workers in Delhi NCR: Thematic Brief 5: Policy Responses and Impact on Sexual and Reproductive Health
(International Center for Research on Women, 2022)With the immediate impact of the pandemic on the healthcare sector, medical centres across the country were burdened by the need to respond to the emergency health contours, resulting in tremendous pressure on hospitals. ... -
India’s Policy Response to COVID-19 and the Gendered Impact on Urban Informal Workers in Delhi NCR: Thematic Brief 4: Policy Responses and Impact on Shelter
(International Center for Research on Women, 2022)In the underbelly of India’s metro cities, urban informal workers have always had poor access to safe and affordable shelter. With COVID infections rising in the cities, informal workers struggled to make rents due to loss ... -
India’s Policy Response to COVID-19 and the Gendered Impact on Urban Informal Workers in Delhi NCR: Thematic Brief 3: Policy Responses and the Impact on Food Security
(International Center for Research on Women, 2022)The lockdown and subsequent labour exodus disrupted the supply chain of essential commodities, with grain markets being closed and oil and rice mills operating at limited strength in many cities. This also impacted the ... -
India’s Policy Response to COVID-19 and the Gendered Impact on Urban Informal Workers in Delhi NCR: Thematic Brief 2: Policy Responses and Impact on Economic Well-Being
(International Center for Research on Women, 2022)The pandemic-induced lockdown had a severe impact on the employment rate in the country, with most studies indicating that urban women being the worst affected. A report by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) ...
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