Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) - Supporting Essential Economic Activity - Protecting Informal Businesses, Small Producers and Women workers: Recent submissions
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El encarecimiento de los insumos agrícolas y otros impactos de la pandemia sobre la agricultura familiar en Chile
(RIMISP, 2022-01)La pandemia del Covid-19 está dejando una marca clara en los sistemas alimentarios. A la par que surgen nuevas variantes del coronavirus que mantienen al mundo en la incertidumbre, pese a los avances en la vacunación, ... -
Voces desde las productoras: efectos del Covid-19 en la agricultura familiar de Alta Verapaz y Sacatepéquez
(RIMISP, 2021-12-15)El sector agroalimentario de la región latinoamericana ha sido afectado a diferentes escalas a lo largo de la pandemia. La interrupción del comercio y el impacto generalizado en los mercados como producto de ... -
Pandemia y disrupciones en las cadena de valor: Percepciones de actores clave
(2021-11-08)En los albores de la irrupción de la pandemia en la región, surgieron considerables cuestionamientos sobre la capacidad de los sistemas alimentarios para continuar su funcionamiento y asegurar el abastecimiento. No ... -
Seguridad alimentaria y alimentación en los territorios de Alta Verapaz y Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
(RIMISP, 2021-07)Con el objetivo central de contribuir a la medición y explicación de la inseguridad alimentaria en Guatemala durante la pandemia, se implementó una encuesta de seguridad alimentaria y alimentación en los departamentos ... -
Essential and Disposable? Or Just Disposable? Informal Workers During COVID-19
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2022-06-10)During the COVID-19 crisis, the phrase “essential but disposable” became a rallying critique in global North countries against an economic system that demanded worker sacrifice without commensurate safety protections, ... -
Recognition, Responsiveness and Reciprocity: What Informal Worker Leaders Expect from the State, the Private Sector and Themselves
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2022-06-10)More than a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence continues to accumulate that its economic impact has disproportionately hit vulnerable populations (OECD 2020). In the world of work, the most severe ... -
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, ...