Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) - Supporting Essential Economic Activity - Protecting Informal Businesses, Small Producers and Women workers: Recent submissions
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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) ... -
India’s Policy Response to COVID-19 and the Gendered Impact on Urban Informal Workers in Delhi NCR: Thematic Brief 1: Pandemic and the Urban Governance Structures
(International Center for Research on Women, 2022)The report published by Center for Policy Research on urban governance during the pandemic looked at the jurisdictional coverage of various actors in the ecosystem in certain regions in the country, including Delhi, pointing ... -
COVID-19 and Women in the Informal Economy
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022)ICRW in collaboration with NASVI and Chetanalya, conducted a study to capture the experiences of street vendors and domestic workers in Delhi. The learnings presented here were collated as part of a three-country research ... -
Caste, Gender, Labor and COVID-19 in the Urban Informal Economy: A Review of Experiences in Three Selected Sectors
(The International Center for Research for Women (ICRW), 2022)One of the key questions posed in our research within the Rebuild project is to understand how COVID-19 exacerbated pre-existing vulnerabilities for women in the urban informal economy. The backdrop of the pandemic has ... -
India’s Policy Response to Covid-19 and the Gendered Impact on Urban Informal Workers in Delhi NCR: Introductory Brief
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022)A year into the pandemic, the devastating impacts have disrupted social and economic infrastructure and have furthermarginalized millions of people. In many ways, the epicentre of the pandemic was felt among the urban ... -
Gendered Impact of COVID-19: A Policy Analysis on the Women Workers in the Urban Informal Economy in Kenya
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2021-12)In 2019, the informal sector in Kenya provided a livelihood to approximately 15 million people. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 resulted in socio-economic shocks that primarily affected the informal workforce ... -
Gendered Impact of Covid-19: A Policy Analysis on the Women Workers in the Urban Informal Economy in Uganda
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2021-12)In Uganda, the informal sector is important to the local economy it contributes more than 50 percent to the GDP annually. It is also the sector in which the majority of the labour force earns a living, largely in jobs that ... -
Expanding Social Protection to Informal Women Workers for Better COVID-19 Recovery in Uganda
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2021)Uganda has female labour force participation of 67 percent. While some efforts to advance social protection are being made, Uganda currently spends only about 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) towards that ... -
Enhancing COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Empowerment of Informal Women Workers in Kenya
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the informal women workers due to lockdowns, curfews, school closures, and all other containment measures- most of which missed the feminist lens in their formulation, ... -
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Tiruppur, India: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
(WIEGO, 2021-12)Known as the “T-Shirt Capital of the World”, Tiruppur is the seventh largest city in Tamil Nadu State, South India. Around 800,000 workers are employed in the knitwear industry, of whom 80,000 (10%) are homeworkers; that ... -
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Canners in New York City, USA
(WIEGO, 2021-01)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 ... -
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Street Vendors in New York City, USA
(WIEGO, 2021-01)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 ... -
School Reopening in Uganda After the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Preparedness, Attrition, Challenges and Prospects for Recovery
(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2022-04-07)The full reopening of schools in January 2022 is expected to revive the ailing education sector. However, schools are still experiencing numerous COVID-19 related challenges even after reopening. This rapid survey explored ... -
COVID-19 Crisis and Street Vendors in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
(WIEGO, 2021-12)Between 10,000 and 20,000 New Yorkers make their living selling food or merchandise on the city’s streets. This report presents the NYC Street Vendor findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal ... -
COVID-19 Crisis and Canners in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
(WIEGO, 2021-12)Canners represent many underserved populations in New York City, including racially or ethnically marginalized groups, undocumented immigrants, seniors, people experiencing mental or physical disabilities, the chronically ...