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DoCS - Documentários do Canal SaúdeSérie Meio Ambiente | Entre o Solo, a Água e o Ar: O Lixo Está em TudoO lixo não desaparece quando sai da nossa casa. Ele contamina solos e águas, contribui para as mudanças climáticas e escancara desigualdades sociais. Este episódio percorre o ciclo dos resíduos,destaca o papel invisibilizado dos catadores e reflete sobre como o lixo se tornou um símbolo da crise ambiental.***Entrevistados:Eduardo Rocha Dias Santos- Diretor de Gestão de Resíduos no Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima. Doutor em Gestão e Tratamento de Resíduos (Universidade do Minho/Portugal), Engenheiro Ambiental (UFV), mestrad...
2025-11-1839 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#46 Expanding social security delivery to informal workersIn this episode, we conclude the building block of delivery and provision of social protection from our social protection solar system. After discussing the role of informal workers’ organizations in the delivery of childcare and healthcare, in this third and final episode of the series, we will talk about the role of informal workers organizations in the delivery of social security benefit for workers in the informal economy.
In Costa Rica, an innovative approach to social security has been implemented over the years by the national government to include rural workers and, more recently, informal urban workers. In this policy, gr...
2025-10-2426 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#45 Workers-led delivery of Healthcare and Social ProtectionIn this episode, we resume the building block of our social protection solar system on the topic of delivery and provision of social protection. In this second episode of the series, we will turn to India, to understand how informal workers organizations can play an important role to improve access to their members by facilitating the last mile delivery of services or benefits.
The Self-Employed Women’s Association, SEWA, set up in India their so-called Shakti Kendras, or SSKs. I talked to Susan Thomas, the National Coordinator of Health and Childcare programmes at the Lok Swas-thya SEWA Trust (LSST), to le...
2025-08-1223 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#44 Towards a social insurance levy on capitalIn this episode we take a pause from the discussion around delivery and provision of social protection benefits and take a fresh look at the challenges to finance social protection in a time of very deep transformations in the world of work. Among these changes, we have increasing automation, swift advances in artificial intelligence and the emergence of forms of capital-labour relations through the mediation of platforms.
These multiple processes have triggered an intense discussion about how social protection systems should be or could be financed – and by whom. It was within this ongoing debate that Luca Pelerano and Florian Ju...
2025-06-0932 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#43 Workers-led Delivery of Child Care in MarketsIn this episode, we start a new building block of our social protection solar system with the first part of the topic on delivery and provision of social protection. We will be looking at the innovations in the delivery of services and cash grants, focusing on informal workers and on the role that informal workers organizations might have in improving access to these workers by facilitating the last mile delivery of services or benefits.
To open this block, we will turn to Africa and look into three cases of provision of child care services. First, we go to South Africa...
2025-04-1134 min
ParlAmericas PodcastWastepickers as changemakers in the waste management sectorThis episode was recorded during the virtual Meeting titled “Reducing Methane Emissions: A Legislative Agenda” organized by the ParlAmericas Green Economy Caucus and the Andean Parliament. During the session, Federico Parra, Social and Solidarity Economy Specialist at Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing (WIEGO), discusses the valuable role waste pickers play in reducing methane emissions by diverting waste from landfills and outlines WIEGO’s initiatives to support their work. In particular, Federico introduces the GHG calculator developed by WIEGO, which quantifies the emissions reductions achieved by waste pickers at various stages of waste management. He also sha...
2025-03-2809 min
#12minconvosChhavi Sachdev: The Power of Consistency: How One Woman Built a Thriving Career Through Podcasting /Ep 3559CHHAVI SACHDEV is India's earliest podcast producer, consultant, and coach -- she has been making podcasts since 2008 and training podcasters since 2011. Her company, _Sonologue, has produced podcasts for various organizations around the world including The Canada in India Show, Accenture's Cloud First Careers podcast, Think Feminist! from CREA, The Evolution of Solutions with The Better India, Jal Samwaad from WaterAid India, World YWCA's The Advocacy Toolkit & RiseUp!, Leadercraft S01 from the Tata Group, IDWFED & WIEGO's Legal Change podcast. Among her achievements are launching India's first nonfiction storytelling podcast Tall Tales Takeaway, and India's first relationship advice podcast The LSDcast...
2025-03-1215 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#42 Social Dialogue and Social Protection for Informal WorkersIn the fourth and last episode of the governance building block we dive into the discussion of social dialogue and social protection for informal workers.
But what does social dialogue actually mean? How can in be used as a tool to improve social protection schemes to better include informal workers? What are the aspects we should look at when analysing these spaces and what are the main barriers workers in the informal employment face to access them? To help us understand these questions we invited two guests.
First, we are going to talk to Jane Barrett, who will set the...
2025-01-0941 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#41 Governance, Social Protection And LawIn the third episode of the governance building block we move on to the discussion of legal frameworks and social protection.
How can legal provisions of participation, access to information, transparency and equality be leveraged to include those workers into social protection systems? What are the main legal frameworks? How does administrative justice work for this end and how it can be used a tool for informal workers in their advocacy efforts? To help us understand these questions we invited Pamhidzai Bamu.
Pamhi holds a masters and a PhD in Labour Law from the University of Cape Town. She is...
2024-11-2130 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#40 Political Economy Of Digital Social Protection In MozambiqueIn the second episode of the governance building block we continue to discuss the issues surrounding digitization and social protection. This time, we take a political economy perspective to understand the interests, ideas, actors and policy implications of digitization. To help us understand this complex issue, we invited again Ruth Castel-Branco,
Ruth is a Senior Researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. Her research is focused on the casualization of labour, worker organizing and the redistributive role of the state. She has studied the case of Mozambique, and shared some of her findings with...
2024-08-3035 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#39 Governance And Digitization Of Social ProtectionIn this episode, we start a new building block of our social protection solar system with the first episode on the topic of governance. We have invited two guests to lay the groundwork for this block, to help us understand social protection governance, as well as the new concerns and potentials brought by digitization. We start with Tony Roberts. Tony is a researcher based at the Institute of Development Studies on the campus of the University of Sussex in the UK. He has worked on the use of digital technologies in social justice organisations since 1988. As a founder of the...
2024-07-2331 min
Social Protection PodcastEmerging Trends in the Indo-Pacific Series Ep. 2 | Social Protection for Gig Workers in Southeast AsiaIn Southeast Asia the gig economy is growing fast. Attracted by the promise of flexibility, independence, and low entry costs, gig workers offer their services on a task-by-task basis facilitated through a digital platform or app. The appeal of this model has attracted millions of workers in the region, however, unlike traditional employees, gig workers often lack access to essential social protection schemes, such as health insurance, old-age pension, and unemployment benefits.
In this episode, we examine the challenges presented by this new employment trend. Workers often face precarious working conditions which leave them vulnerable to shocks...
2024-04-2646 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#38 Registration Challenges For Domestic Workers In Latin AmericaIn the third episode of the registration block we travel to Latin America to take a regional overview of this issue regarding domestic workers. To learn the challenges these workers face to be registered, the positive experiences, as well as the opportunities and limitations digital technology tools offer in this task, among other issues revolving around registration for domestic workers in Latin America, we invited Adriana Paz. Adriana is currently Secretary General of the International Domestic Workers’ Federation (IDWF). Previously, she served as Latin America Coordinator for more than six years, also at IDWF.
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IDWF and WIEGO. Imagining Social Se...
2024-04-2234 min
Noticiero de Nacho Lozano en ChilangoRumbo al 8M: Panorama de las mujeres dentro del comercio informal y trabajo no asalariadoConversamos con Yuleina Carmona García –coordinadora para la Ciudad de México de WIEGO–, Aideé Zamorano González –Fundadora y directora de Mamá Godín–, Paola Rebeca Moreno Sandoval –coordinadora operativa de Aúna (Plataforma para nuevas representaciones políticas de mujeres), acerca de la complejidad del sujeto político de la protesta, las mujeres, dentro del rumbo a la marcha del 8M en CDMX, dando foco a las mujeres dentro del comercio informal y a las personas no asalariadas.Programa transmitido el 05 de marzo de 2024. Escucha 'Esto no es un noticiero' con Nacho Lozano, en vivo...
2024-03-0518 minNoticiero de Nacho Lozano en ChilangoCandidatos presidenciales y Episcopado mexicano por Compromiso Nacional por la Paz, Supermartes de elecciones en Estados Unidos, Suspenden clases en CCH AzcapotzalcoConversamos con el Padre Mario Ángel Flores –Director del Observatorio del Episcopado Mexicano– sobre el encuentro entre la Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano y los tres aspirantes presidenciales para firmar el Compromiso Nacional por La Paz, el próximo lunes 11 de marzo. Los obispos del país invitaron a Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo y Jorge Álvarez Máynez al encuentro donde se les presentará la Agenda Nacional de Paz y se les entregará el documento "Estrategias de Política Pública para La Paz”. La reunión será en el Centro Cultural Tlatelolco a las 09:00 horas, y los tres candidatos...
2024-03-0551 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#37 Registration For Social Protection In CambodiaIn episode five of the systems’ mapping, building blocks approach, we continue to explore the topic of registration. This time, we look closely at the Cambodian IDPoor programme, to understand to what extent a government-led effort to improve how beneficiaries of social assistance and social protection schemes are effectively accounted for – and what are the gaps, challenges and merits of this new registration drive.
To understand the Cambodian case, we invited Bunly Than. Bunly is the lead of the Inclusive and shock-responsive social protection system project at Oxfam Cambodia.
*Our theme music is Focus from AA Aalto (Creative Commons)
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2024-02-2928 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#36 Digitization and Registration In South AfricaAnd we start the year with the first episode of the second building block of our new season, in which we will discuss the issue of registration. How is digital technology helping to include informal workers into social protection schemes or how is it creating new barriers for these people to access protection? What are the risks and opportunities? What is the role of informal workers organisations in building more inclusive registration systems?
These are some of the questions we will try to answer by looking at some cases of programmes and policies countries are implementing to expand their social...
2024-01-0928 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#35 Innovations to Financing Social Protection in a Changing World of WorkThis is the third and last episode of the financing building block. Previously, we discussed alternative ways to finance social protection extension for waste pickers in India and Argentina, and the struggle to finance gig workers in Rajasthan. Now we explore the challenges of financing social protection in a changing world of work.
What are the possible paths, strategies and innovations countries are undertaking to include informal workers? What about digital platforms: is there room to improve social protection for these workers?
To discuss these and other issues we invited two guests: Sarah Cook and Ruth Castel-Branco.
Sarah is a...
2023-11-2833 min
Global Development Institute podcastWhat role can researchers play in driving urban reform?This episode comes from the African Cities Research Centre, based at the Global Development Institute. Urban reform coalitions can play a critical role in building inclusive, sustainable and productive cities. Made up of diverse stakeholders who collaborate to achieve common goals, these coalitions can work to strengthen relationships between disadvantaged groups and influential state/non-state actors. This collective action can be powerful in challenging socioeconomic inequality and enabling marginalised groups to capitalise on political opportunities for inclusive reform.So where do researchers come in?This podcast episode...
2023-09-2952 min
African CitiesUrban reform coalitions: The role of researchersUrban reform coalitions can play a critical role in building inclusive, sustainable and productive cities. Made up of diverse stakeholders who collaborate to achieve common goals, these coalitions can work to strengthen relationships between disadvantaged groups and influential state/non-state actors. This collective action can be powerful in challenging socioeconomic inequality and enabling marginalised groups to capitalise on political opportunities for inclusive reform.So where do researchers come in?This podcast episode is a recording from a webinar we held in September 2023 to discuss the role that academics, action researchers and professionals can...
2023-09-2551 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#34 Financing Social Protection for Gig Workers in RajasthanThe current episode is the second of this new season. We will continue to look at the issue of financing, which was the topic of the first episode of the system’s mapping series.
We will talk about a very important theme: how to finance the inclusion of gig workers from digital platforms of service provisions in social protection system.
We turn our attention to the Indian State of Rajasthan, where the local legislative has just passed a law creating the Rajasthan Platform-Based Gig Workers Welfare Board.
In order to understand what the Welfare Board is, what is their role in...
2023-09-1227 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#33b Financiación de la Protección Social de los Recicladores en India y ArgentinaWIEGO inaugura una nueva etapa de su podcast. A partir de este episodio, vamos a comprender mejor las piezas del sistema de protección social, para poder mejor comprender los retos, oportunidades y dificultades que enfrentan los trabajadores informales. Todo eso ofreciendo la perspectiva de los trabajadores, desde una aproximación ascendente.
En esta etapa, daremos atención especial al tema de la digitalización, aunque no será el único aspecto discutido aquí. Vamos a mirar como la tecnología está siendo utilizada para mejorar la inclusión de trabajadores informales, pero también comprender los riesgos y retos involucrados.
En los próx...
2023-07-1220 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#33 Financing Social Protection for Waste Pickers in India and ArgentinaWIEGO starts a new phase of its podcast. From this episode onwards, we will gain a better understanding of the pieces of the social protection system, in order to better understand the challenges, opportunities and difficulties faced by informal workers. All this by offering the workers' perspective, from a bottom-up approach.
At this stage, we will give special attention to the issue of digitalisation, although it will not be the only aspect discussed here. We will look at how technology is being used to improve the inclusion of informal workers, but also understand the risks and challenges involved.
In the...
2023-07-1247 min
Josh Talksझुग्गी-झोपड़ी की महिलाओं की ज़िंदगी ऐसे सुधारी | Bijal Brahmbhattबिजल ब्रह्मभट्ट वर्तमान में महिला आवास सेवा ट्रस्ट (एमएचटी) की निदेशक हैं. वह प्रशिक्षण से एक सिविल इंजीनियर हैं और आवास सुधार, सामुदायिक विकास और आवास वित्त में एक मान्यता प्राप्त विशेषज्ञ हैं. वह राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर एमएचटी के संचालन की देखरेख करती हैं. उन्हें पूरे भारत में स्लम उन्नयन कार्यक्रमों की परिकल्पना, योजना, प्रबंधन और समर्थन प्रदान करने का सिद्ध अनुभव है. उनके पास भूमि कार्यकाल और नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के मुद्दों में भी विशेषज्ञता है, और उन्होंने आवास, आवास वित्त, सामुदायिक विकास और भूमि कार्यकाल पर विश्व बैंक, CEPT विश्वविद्यालय, WIEGO, और इसी तरह के कागजात लिखे हैं.
2023-05-2720 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#32 Challenging Global Social Protection Orthodoxies - part 2In 2021, WIEGO has launched the project “Challenging the global orthodoxies which undermine Universal Social Protection”. In a nutshell, the project aimed to examine some of the dominant ideas in the field of social protection that were hindering the concrete inclusion of informal workers in these schemes.
Exactly one year ago, I invited the coordinator of this project, Florian Juergens-Grant, to talk about what this project was about and its research perspectives for that year. You can check our conversation on episode 26 of our podcast.
Now that the project has just been finalized, I invited Florian again to discuss the main find...
2023-04-2530 min
In SolidarityExploring Informal Economy and Women's Work with Martha Chen'In Solidarity' is a SEWA Cooperative Federation podcast that explores themes relevant to women's economic empowerment and challenges that women-owned, women-run enterprises face. In the fourth episode, titled 'Exploring Informal Economy and Women's Work,' we are in conversation with Martha Chen, Padma Shree awardee and the co-founder of the WIEGO network, which works to raise the voice and visibility of the working poor.According to a 2018 ILO study, two billion of the global employed population earn their living in the informal economy. The informal economy exists in countries at all levels of socioeconomic development. Despite witnessing...
2023-03-1342 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#31 Online Capacity Building on Social Protection for Informal WorkersThe Covid-19 pandemic has affected the world in many ways. People all around the globe had to adapt to this new reality, and it was no different for informal workers leaders that struggle to improve their organizational strength.
Capacity building, one of the key aspects to increase the voice and visibility of workers, also had to be done differently. Traditional, in person events, such as exchanges, field visits or in person training sessions had to be pushed back to give room to this virtual learning environment. And new tools were created to enable better experiences, and bring people closer, despite...
2023-02-1640 min
Derecho RemixLxs rifadxs de la basura¿Has escuchado hablar de lxs rifadxs de la basura? es un corto documental que cuenta de cerca las historias de las personas voluntarias del servicio de limpieza de la CDMX que dependen de nuestras propinas, no tienen prestaciones laborales y viven en la informalidad laboral. Con el pretexto del estreno de este documental, este 15 de febrero en el Cine Tonalá, invitamos a Tania Espinosa de WIEGO y a Isaky, voluntario del servicio de limpieza a contarnos con más detalle cómo se vive el día día, qué implicaciones tiene para ellxs vivir en la informalidad y cómo fu...
2023-02-1553 min
At Home and Abroad with Harris and WalkerThe Butler Did It: Dishing about Service with Charles MacphersonDomestic service is integral to human history. Whenever there has been a divide between have and have not, between wealthy and poor, there have been workers to bring comfort and cleanliness to the lives of their overseers. In recent times, the relationship between master or mistress and servant has been glamourized through popular media. The magical mystique that was once only reserved for the elite is now extended to those who serve them. But is it really a fairytale of domesticated bliss between servant and master, a love story of loyalty and extended familial bonds?
2023-01-1448 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#30 India's Social Registry of Informal WorkersIn India, the government has set a huge undertaking: to register 380 million informal workers on a new database, so that it could allow the delivery of social security payments. This database, called e-Shram, was launched in August 2021.
But, of course, this initiative was followed by a range of doubts, problems and barriers that has been hindering the implementation of this social registry system.
To help us better understand the e-Shram – the promises, shortcomings, challenges, and most importantly, the Indian context – we invited Avi Majithia.
Avi is WIEGO’s Delhi Focal City coordinator and holds a master’s degree in Regulatory Governan...
2022-12-0229 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#29 Social and Solidarity Economy and Informal WorkersSocial and Solidarity Economy has got into a very high place in the international agenda. This year, SSE, as it is called, was the theme of the International Labour Conference, in which workers representatives, government officials and employers representatives have gathered to discuss this alternative form of organizing production, distribution and consumption.
One of the main outcomes of the conference was that the a proposed definition of the social and solidarity economy was approved.
To understand the importance of this landmark and to learn in which ways it can contribute to the discussion of expanding social protection for informal workers...
2022-09-1929 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#28 COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study: round 2In the episode 20 of our podcast, we discussed the first round of the WIEGO longitudinal survey, conducted in 2020. In this special episode, we will discuss the report of the second round of this global survey.
In this stage, 11 cities around the globe were part of the research that explored how the fallout of the pandemic affected informal workers’ income, working hours, access to healthcare, but also their coping strategies, demands and the government responses in the second year of the pandemic.
To discuss some of the main findings of the research, we invited Ana Carolina Ogando and Mike Rogan. Ana Ca...
2022-06-2744 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#27 Social Security for Domestic Workers: trends and strategiesFor decades, domestic workers have struggled to be recognized and to enjoy the same rights as other workers – including social protection rights. There has been significant progress over the past few years, as the workers’ movement pressured in national and international forums to have labour and social protection rights enshrined in their legal system. The ILO Convention-189 and the ratification by 35 countries, is one example of such achievements.
However, there is still a lot to be done in order to formally include domestic workers into social protection systems. But also, there are important steps to be taken in order to ensu...
2022-06-1630 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#26 Challenging Global Social Protection OrthodoxiesOver the last few years, universal social protection and the government responses to the Covid-19 crisis has generated important debates in the field of social protection.
The Universal Social Protection 2030 framework, for instance, has gained support from a variety of key social protection stakeholders, including national governments, the ILO, IMF, World Bank, and other United Nations agencies, as well as global civil society organizations.
However, certain key principles and actions remain contested in practice at both the level of global financial institutions and within the roll-out of schemes at national level – which highlighted the importance of the role of the id...
2022-04-2830 min
The Nagrik PodcastWaste Pickers Organising in Neoliberalism: Lakshmi Narayan, Poornima Chikarmane, Jane Barrett, Melanie SamsonThe Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (or KKPKP) is a membership-based trade union of waste pickers and itinerant waste buyers in Pune in Maharashtra. Formed in 1993, it wanted to assert waste pickers’ status as workers and their role in the city’s solid waste management. Today, it has over 9000 members, 80 percent of whom are women from socially backward and marginalised castes. Each member pays an annual fee to the organization and an equal amount towards their life insurance cover.
In 2005, KKPKP formed a wholly-owned workers’ cooperative called SWaCH in partnership with the Pune Municipal Corporation. 1500 waste p...
2022-03-312h 18
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#25 Social Insurance for Informal Workers in South AfricaThe last two years have brought a huge challenge to social protection systems around the world as the pandemic hit and shed light to the need of strengthening social insurance policies to protect workers against shocks that affected their livelihoods.
We look at the case of South Africa’s Unemployment Insurance Fund (or UIF) and Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (better known as TERS) to analyze how these policies were implemented to reach domestic workers, what went wrong, what went right, the challenges ahead and what learnings this might bring to help us think about new insurance schemes that can pr...
2022-02-1733 min
The Mittal Institute, Harvard UniversityWIEGO: Marty Chen Interview 2021WIEGO: Marty Chen Interview 2021 by The Mittal Institute, Harvard University
2021-12-0944 min
The Mittal Institute, Harvard UniversityMarty Chen: WIEGOMarty Chen: WIEGO by The Mittal Institute, Harvard University
2021-12-0845 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#24 Lessons from the Covid-19 crisis for social protectionFor the past two years, the world has been facing one of the biggest challenges of our lifetime, with the Covid-19 crisis. In this last episode of the year, we invited again Laura Alfers, the Social Protection programme coordinator at WIEGO, and Rachel Moussié, deputy coordinator of the Social Protection programme and head of the Child Care initiative, also here at WIEGO, to discuss the way in which the pandemic has exposed blind spots in social protection systems and reinforced women informal workers’ exclusion. In this talk, they explained the impact of the pandemic in their work and in the fie...
2021-12-0230 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#23b Cuidado Infantil para Trabajadoras InformalesLa pandemia ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia crucial de la prestación de servicios de cuidado infantil. En este episodio, nos fijamos en cómo la Unión de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular (UTEP), una central sindical de trabajadores informales de Argentina, ha apoyado a las cooperativas de cuidado infantil para que presten estos servicios a los hijos de los trabajadores informales.
Para entender cómo funcionan estos servicios comunitarios de cuidado de niños en Argentina, cómo se han visto afectados por la pandemia y los retos futuros, invitamos a Paola Caviedes. Paola es una recicla...
2021-10-2227 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#23 Child Care for Informal Workers in ArgentinaThe pandemic has highlighted the crucial importance of child care provision.
In this episode, we look at how the Unión de Trabajadores de la Economía Popular (UTEP), an informal workers central union in Argentina, has supported child care cooperatives to provide these services for informal workers’ children.
To understand how these community child care centres work in Argentina, how they have been affected by the pandemic and the challenges ahead we invited Carolina Palacio. Carolina is an organizer from the Argentinian Federation of Waste Pickers, affiliated to UTEP, and also she coordinates the Buenos Aires Costal City project at W...
2021-10-2225 min
Social Protection PodcastODI Series Ep. 6 | Covid-19 crisis: opportunities and risks for extending social protection to informal workersIn the months of June and July, the Social Protection Podcast is hosting a special series in partnership with ODI and GIZ. Across six episodes, our guest host Francesca Bastagli, Director of the Equity and Social Policy programme and Principal Research Fellow at ODI, will moderate conversations around the guiding question: “Covid-19: a turning point for social protection?”.
These six episodes are part of an ODI research project, funded by GIZ, on the emerging evidence and learning from social protection measures adopted in the early months, and within the first year, of the onset of the Covid-19 cris...
2021-07-2235 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#22 ILC ReflectionsAfter two weeks of intense debates that took place from June 3rd to June 19th, the first segment of the 109th session of the International Labour Conference – ILC – is now over. In this episode, we talked to worker leaders who attended the ILC to share their impressions and learnings from the event that had Social Protection on the forefront of the debates.
Featuring:
Oksana Aboud, international Coordinator of StreetNet International
Jeannette Nyiramasengesho, SNI Council Member and SYTRIECI
Jacquelina Flores, FACCyR /UTEP
Fish Ip, Asia regional coordinator from International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF)
Suntaree Saeng-Ging, International Coordinator of HomeNet South East Asia...
2021-07-0729 min
Labour Studies PodcastsNALSU Labour Studies Podcast | Pat Horn: Organised Workers in the Informal Economy: COVID-19, Workers in the Informal Economy & New Forms of Work in South AfricaIn this Labour Studies Podcast (also available as a YouTube Video), Pat Horn speaks on "Organised Workers in the Informal Economy: COVID-19, Workers in the Informal Economy & New Forms of Work in South Africa."
The podcast is provided by the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), Rhodes University, South Africa. Please follow the link: https://anchor.fm/nalsu (You can also download the Anchor FM app for your phone at the Google Play Store).
A YouTube video is is available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNhxCDqcwK1W7f-vro947FQ
This recorded webinar, ava...
2021-05-1151 min
Social Protection PodcastEp. 2 | Scaling up economic inclusionIn this episode, we’re talking about economic inclusion. Economic inclusion programmes typically target the poorest people and seek to address the many barriers to escaping poverty by providing multiple, complementary interventions. These generally include providing cash transfer assets, but also training, mentoring, access to finance and so on. These programmes are increasing in popularity as evidence starts to show promising and lasting results.
According to a major report published earlier this year, there were economic inclusion programmes running in 75 countries – many still quite new – reaching 92 million people. And, with the number of poor living in extreme poverty on the ris...
2021-04-2935 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#21 Covid-19 Vaccination And Informal WorkersIn this episode, we dive into the social aspects of Covid-19 vaccination, and try to understand its impact on informal workers. How are they affected by the policy choices? What are the barriers to access? And what does it have to do with the issue of economic justice? These and other questions were discussed in this talk with with Christy Braham.
Christy is WIEGO’s Worker’s Health coordinator, she is also a founder member of the African Network on Migration and Health and a PhD candidate in public health at the University of Sheffield. she has been working at WIEG...
2021-04-2828 min
Social Protection PodcastEp. 1 | Women in Leadership during the COVID-19 crisisThis month, March, marks a year since COVID-19 swept over the globe, and triggered the first waves of closures and lockdowns in many countries. It has been a big year for social protection, as governments, international organisations and communities raced to extend safety nets to the many millions of people who lost work or became more vulnerable due to the pandemic.
In our first episode of the Social Protection Podcast, we look at the challenges and lessons of COVID-19 from a practitioner perspective. You’ll hear from four women leaders in the social protection community, who...
2021-03-2631 min
The Mittal Institute, Harvard UniversityBangladesh at 50: Women’s Empowerment: From Home to Factory and BeyondA panel from the second day of our Bangladesh at 50 conference.
Hameeda Hossain, Ain o Salish Kendra, Forum Magazine
Shireen Huq, Naripokkho
Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics
Khushi Kabir, Nijera Kori
Moderator: Marty Chen, Harvard Kennedy School; WIEGO
2021-03-191h 19
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#20 Covid-19 Crisis, Relief Policies and Care Impact on Informal WorkersIn this episode, we explore how Covid-19 crisis affected informal workers care responsibilities and to which extent the government responses addressed informal workers’ needs in terms of income and food security, throughout 2020.
WIEGO conducted a longitudinal survey with informal workers in 12 cities around the world, during the second and third quarters of 2020, and now the first findings are starting to be released.
We invited two guests to discuss some of the results related to social protection. Mike Rogan is an Associate Professor in Economics and Economic History at Rhodes University in South Africa and a researcher at WIEGO. He co-authored a...
2021-03-1131 min
Claro y Directo con Augusto Álvarez Rodrich25.02.21 Informales: los más dañados de la pandemiaAAR conversa con Carmen Roca, coordinadora de WIEGO en Perú, sobre la crisis en el sector informal.
2021-02-2516 minLa Republica - Claro y directo25.02.21 Informales: los más dañados de la pandemiaAAR conversa con Carmen Roca, coordinadora de WIEGO en Perú, sobre la crisis en el sector informal.
2021-02-2516 minThe Nagrik PodcastThe Campaign for ILO Convention 177: Renana Jhabvala, Martha Chen, Eileen Boris, Marlese von Broembsen, Dev NathanIndia’s garment sector employs at least 12 million people in factories, but millions more work from their homes. Most of them are women and girls from minority or marginalised communities and the garment sector is not alone in using the labour of home-based workers.
Four out of five Indian women of the working age are neither working, nor seeking employment. The paid work that is available to India's time-poor women is often precarious and exploitative, and falls within the category known as informal work.
Home-based work falls in this category and it is marked by ve...
2021-02-162h 05
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#19b Gender-Based Violence and Informal Workers - part 2In the second episode of the mini-series, the Informal Economy Podcast: social protection joins the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence against women”. We bring a series in two parts to talk about how gender-based violence impacts informal women workers and what they have been doing to face this important challenge, especially in a year marked by the Covid-19 global pandemic.
Last week, we brought you the first part of this series, where we talked to Sonia George. Now, in the last part of the series, we talked to Oksana Abboud. Oksana is the international coordinator of StreetNet International, a glob...
2020-12-0224 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#19 Gender-Based Violence and Informal Workers - part 1In this episode, the Informal Economy Podcast: social protection joins the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence against women”. In this special episode, we will bring a series in two parts to talk about how gender-based violence impacts informal women workers and what they have been doing to face this important challenge, especially in a year marked by the Covid-19 global pandemic.
This week, we bring you the first part of the show, featuring Sonia George. Sonia is the general secretary of SEWA in the Indian state of Kerela. SEWA stands for Self Employed Women’s Association, and an informal worker...
2020-11-2522 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#18 Social Protection Needs For Older Informal WorkersIn this episode, we explore the issue of the social protection needs for older informal workers. In the context of a growing aging population also in the developing world, the debates around schemes to guarantee access to these informal workers to healthcare and to income security has become increasingly important. To help us understand more about the fundamental concepts, debates and trends around the social protection for older informal workers, in particular in SouthEast Asia, we invited Aura Sevilla.
Aura is a specialist and an advocate on issues related to dignifying aging policies in SouthEast Asia and in the Phillipines...
2020-10-2027 min
Guilherme Tampieri | 50222Prosa - Catadores(as), lixo e o que você queria saber sobre a reciclagem em BHFomos de aulão coletivão sobre resíduos sólidos, catadores e reciclagem e foi MARA!
Dessa vez, a prosa foi sobre resíduos sólidos, também chamado de lixo! Falamos do papel fundamental de catadoras(es) no processo de gestão de resíduos, da reciclagem, de (porque não) incineração, de um monte de coisas que dizem respeito ao que fazemos com o lixo que sai das nossas casas, de lojas, restaurantes, etc! Foi uma riquíssima partilha de conhecimento e vivência de quem está nesse campo dos resíduos há muitos...
2020-10-081h 37
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#17 Universal Basic Income In South AfricaIn this month, we will dive into the topic of universal basic income, or UBI. In South Africa, the government has recently announced the intention of implementing this policy in the country, which was regarded as a very important step. To help us understand more about universal basic income, its debates and how it is taking in the South African context, we invited Isobel Frye.
Isobel is the director of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, she is also a commissioner at National Minimum Wage Commission, and she is a civil society representative at the South Africa’s National De...
2020-08-2730 min
Remember Who Made ThemFeminist Fashion: Emancipation Or Exploitation?We all love clothes, let's Remember Who Made Them. In episode 3 we discuss Feminist Fashion. As brands and retailers claim to be “empowering’, ‘feminist” or “committed to equality” how do the 80% female workforce in the fashion industry fare? What happens when the patriarchal system manifests in the industry? Devi speaks with Jeeva, a garment worker and member of the Dabindu Collective in Sri Lanka about the conditions of her work, the impact of the COVID crisis and the changes to the workplace as targets and production continue to increase at alarming rates. Swatee speaks to Saira and Koussar, members of the Home...
2020-08-2100 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#16 Challenges To Protect Informal Workers Livelihoods In Peru And MexicoIn this month, we go back to the ground to understand how the livelihoods of informal workers are being affected in two of the countries in Latin America most hit in the region by the Covid-19 crisis: Mexico and Peru.
We invited two guests who are working closely with informal workers. From Mexico, Tania Espinoza, Mexico City Focal City Coordinator at WIEGO. And from Peru, we bring Carmen Roca, Lima Focal City Coordinator, also from WIEGO.
They will analyse the main challenges on the implementation of the emergency cash-grant policies to protect informal workers income, the problems of government responses...
2020-07-0130 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#16b Retos para Proteger a Los Medios de Vidas de Trabajadores Informales en Peru y MexicoEn este mes, volvemos al terreno para comprender cómo se están afectando los medios de vida de los trabajadores del sector informal en dos de los países de América Latina más afectados en la región por la crisis de Covid-19: México y Perú.
Invitamos a dos especialistas que están trabajando estrechamente con los trabajadores informales. De México, Tania Espinoza, Coordinadora de la Ciudad Focal de la Ciudad de México en WIEGO. Y de Perú, traemos a Carmen Roca, Coordinadora de la Ciudad Focal de Lima, también de WIEGO.
Ellas analizaran lo...
2020-07-0136 min
Love Zero WasteFrom fire to loops (with Claire Arkin & Rossano Ercolini)Is incineration, burning waste, a good idea? Answer: No. In this episode of Love Zero Waste we’ll explore how incineration is hindering the closing of the loops and the transition towards a circular economy, and what the more sustainable alternatives are (spoiler alert: designing out waste!). Learn how the now world-famous town in Italy, Capannori chose another path than incineration and developed a locally adapted waste management plan, a solution that has panned out so well, that it has inspired more than 400 European municipalities to do the same. Also hosts Evelina Lundqvist and Malin Leth have a lot to sa...
2020-06-2327 min
Relatos de Gobierno UrbanoE15: El mundo del reciclador: una travesía hacia su dignificaciónHace cerca de treinta años algunos habitantes de nuestras ciudades encontraron en los botaderos de basura una forma de subsistir en medio de la marginalidad. La búsqueda de material reutilizable para su uso y venta se convirtió para ellos en principal fuente de recursos en medio de un contexto de discriminación y marginación. Hoy en día, la situación ha cambiado parcialmente. Poco a poco la sociedad toma conciencia sobre la importancia del reciclador como eslabón valioso y necesario para contener los efectos negativos del consumo. En la actualidad, muchos de ellos se encuentran organiza...
2020-06-2234 min
Relatos de Gobierno UrbanoE15: El mundo del reciclador: una travesía hacia su dignificaciónHace cerca de treinta años algunos habitantes de nuestras ciudades encontraron en los botaderos de basura una forma de subsistir en medio de la marginalidad. La búsqueda de material reutilizable para su uso y venta se convirtió para ellos en principal fuente de recursos en medio de un contexto de discriminación y marginación. Hoy en día, la situación ha cambiado parcialmente. Poco a poco la sociedad toma conciencia sobre la importancia del reciclador como eslabón valioso y necesario para contener los efectos negativos del consumo. En la actualidad, muchos de ellos se encuentran organiza...
2020-06-2234 minRelatos de Gobierno UrbanoE15: El mundo del reciclador: una travesía hacia su dignificaciónHace cerca de treinta años algunos habitantes de nuestras ciudades encontraron en los botaderos de basura una forma de subsistir en medio de la marginalidad. La búsqueda de material reutilizable para su uso y venta se convirtió para ellos en principal fuente de recursos en medio de un contexto de discriminación y marginación. Hoy en día, la situación ha cambiado parcialmente. Poco a poco la sociedad toma conciencia sobre la importancia del reciclador como eslabón valioso y necesario para contener los efectos negativos del consumo. En la actualidad, muchos de ellos se encuentran organiza...
2020-06-2234 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#15 Lessons From Government Responses to Protect Informal WorkersAnd in this episode, we bring you the third and last part of the especial mini-series on social protection for informal workers in the context of the Covid-19 global pandemic. We will look more closely on how governments around the world are responding to the global crisis in order to address to the urgent social protection needs of vulnerable people, in particular, informal workers.
To help us understand the main challenges and concrete issues policy makers are facing as the first government responses are being implemented, we invited Valentina Barca.
Valentina is an independent consultant, and she is a specialist...
2020-06-0131 min
Politics of COVID-19 Podcast - The Syllabus#14 Impact of the Global Pandemic on Informal Workers - Covid-19 edition Podcast: Informal Economy Podcast: Social ProtectionEpisode: #14 Impact of the Global Pandemic on Informal Workers - Covid-19 editionPub date: 2020-05-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this second episode of the mini-series, we will hear the concrete impact on the lives of informal workers in cities around the world, with brief updates from the ground from WIEGO team members who work closely with informal workers. We also bring the account from two workers leaders themselves, on how the lockdown is affecting their lives an...
2020-05-0755 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#14 Impact of the Global Pandemic on Informal Workers - Covid-19 editionIn this second episode of the mini-series, we will hear the concrete impact on the lives of informal workers in cities around the world, with brief updates from the ground from WIEGO team members who work closely with informal workers. We also bring the account from two workers leaders themselves, on how the lockdown is affecting their lives and those of their comrades.
I talked to 11 people from 9 cities around the world. From Delhi, India, to Portland, United States, passing through Dakar, Johannesburg, Accra, Belo Horizonte, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Mexico City.
We will hear how local and national governments...
2020-05-0555 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#13 Protecting informal workers amid the global pandemic - Covid-19 editionIn this month, we start a especial mini-series on social protection for informal workers in the context of the Covid-19 global pandemic. This global health crisis has brought many countries, cities and states to a halt, as authorities try to slow down the spread and “flatten the curve”.This unprecedented lockdown has also deep social and economic consequences, and impact the lives of billions of workers.
In this opening episode of the series, we invite Sally Roever to discuss how this health and economic crisis impacts informal workers, the policy responses and the challenges governments will have to face in orde...
2020-04-0226 min
OECD PodcastsSocial dialogue is a tool for gender equality, says Sally RoeverWe hold many assumptions about our workplaces and about what makes a good job, ones that often leave out women’s perspectives. Dr. Sally Roever of Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, known as WIEGO, explains how social dialogue can broaden our understanding of work, unpack our assumptions about labour, and better working conditions for women around the world.
Host: Kate Lancaster
Producer: Robin Allison Davis
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2020-03-0415 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#12 Child Care Models For Women Informal WorkersIn this International Women’s Day episode we will discuss a very important topic for women informal workers: child care. As women are most often the primary responsible for looking after their children, without quality child care services, they either have to forgo paid work or are less productive because they have watch their children while trying to work. Child care is vital, especially in the poorest households, as the earnings of women informal workers often represent a large share of one family’s income.
In order to talk in more detail about child care policies for informal workers, we invi...
2020-03-0431 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#11 Statistics, Social Protection and Informal EmploymentIn the first episode of the year we will discuss numbers! Statistics are a powerful tool to shed light on the informal economy, and to make informal workers visible in policy arenas. In order to help us understand better the linkages between social protection and statistics, the challenges, limitations and the most recent research on the field we invite two special guests: Françoise Carré and Francie Lund.
Françoise is the WIEGO’s Statistics Programme Director, and Research Director at the Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Françoise conducts research on work transformation and non-st...
2020-01-3030 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#10 The Future of Work and the Missing MiddleIn this episode, we invited Christina Behrendt. Christina, head of the Social Policy Unit at the ILO, to talk about the relations between the Future of Work and the challenges to extend social protection to the so-called “missing middle”, the informal economy workers.
We discussed how policies to provide social protection to informal workers can help the debate around forms of work associated to the so-called gig economy, and whether universal basic income might offer an alternative to this configuration of work.
- ILO Global Social Protection Week Page: https://www.ilo.org/secsoc/information-resources/meetings-and-events/WCMS_715348/lang--en/index.htm
- Gl...
2019-11-2130 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#09b Protection Sociale pour les Travailleurs Informels au TogoDans cet épisode, nous vous apportons un entretien avec Komi
Kessouagni. Komi est le Coordinateur du Point Focal Régional StreetNet pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre.
On a parlé sur les défis des travailleurs informels au Togo pour avoir l’accès à la protection social, aussi bien comme les initiatives des travailleurs eux-mêmes, pour offrir des services de soins à ceux qui ne sont pas couvert par l’état, à travers de la création de mutuelles de santé géré par les travailleurs.
Note d’information de WIEGO : Extension de la protection sociale aux travailleurs et travailleuses de l’informel https...
2019-10-3018 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#09 Social Protection For Informal Workers in TogoIn this episode, we bring you an interview with Liliane Napoe, of the Danish Trade Union Development Agency. Liliane is the International Adviser and Head of the West African sub-regional office, based in Lomé, where she has been supporting informal workers in their effort to expand social protection and in their attempt to form a coalition to push for social rights for informal workers.
We talked about the struggle of informal workers in Togo to have access to social protection, the latest development in the country and the perspectives ahead for this informal workers coalition that is forming around the d...
2019-10-3015 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#08 Universal Health Coverage in Southeast AsiaIn this month, WIEGO’s Social Protection programme director, Laura Alfers, was in Thailand for the Association of South East Asian Nations People’s Forum, or ASEAN People’s Forum for short, where civil society organizations representatives have gathered, in Bangkok, to prepare for the ASEAN Summit that will happen from 31st of October to November 4th also in Thailand.
The regional network of home-based workers, HomeNet South East Asia hosted an event at the People's Forum on their new flagship issue - Universal Health Coverage for Informal Workers.
Laura was at that ASEAN People’s forum event, where she has met...
2019-10-0115 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#07 Formalizing The Informal - The R204 ProcessIn 2015, the ILO’s International Labour Conference adopted the Recommendation about the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy, the R204.
To help us understand what is the R204, what is the importance of it, what has been done until now and the challenges ahead, we will talk to Jane Barrett
Jane is WIEGO’s Organization and Representation programme director and she has been leading the R204 process at WIEGO in South Africa.
Resources
• WIEGO’s perspective on “Formalizing the Informal Economy” http://www.wiego.org/formalization/formalizing-informal-economy
• WIEGO Network Platform: Transitioning from the Informal to the Formal Economy in the Interes...
2019-08-1328 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#06 Coproduction Of Social Services For Informal WorkersWho should bear the main burden of social service: is it the state, the private sector, NGOs, communities or individuals? This is a very complex discussion, so central to questions of rising inequality. In order to contribute to this debate, Laura Alfers has published a paper for the UNRISD Conference “Overcoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilization”, which took place in Geneva, last November.
Laura’s paper is concerned with how informal workers’ organizations have become involved in health service provision – something that is often termed “co-production.” She draws from two case studies, one from India and anot...
2019-07-1125 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#05b Trabajadoras Del Hogar Y Violencia en el TrabajoLa violencia y el acoso en el lugar de trabajo afectan a muchos trabajadores en todo el mundo, especialmente a las mujeres. Es un fenómeno tan generalizado que se incluyó en el orden del día de la próxima conferencia internacional del trabajo, que tendrá lugar en los próximos días en ginebra, donde la cuestión será objeto de una segunda ronda de debates, con vistas a la adopción de un convenio de la OIT.
Es importante tener en cuenta que la violencia y el acoso en el lugar de trabajo también afectan de distintas m...
2019-06-1022 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#05 Domestic Workers and Violence at the workplaceViolence and harassment at the workplace affect many workers all over the world, especially women. It is such a pervasive phenomenon that it was included in the agenda of the next International Labour Conference, which will take place the coming days in Geneva, where the issue will be up for a second round of discussions, with a view to the adoption of an ILO convention.
It is important to bear in mind that violence and harassment at the workplace also affect in distinct ways different workers: men and women, formal and informal workers.
To help us understand more about the...
2019-06-1019 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#04 Child Care and Informal EconomyChild care is often regarded as part of the education policy, centred around early childhood care and development. But child care is also the provision of a service that has a close relation to social protection and women economic empowerment.
Informal women workers' low earnings mean they work long hours to secure their family livelihood, often times leaving little time for them to care for children living in their households.
But children require care, and without the provision of quality child care services, women either take on more flexible but insecure informal work, work fewer hours in these jobs than...
2019-05-1025 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#03b Saúde e Segurança no Trabalho e Catadores (in Portuguese)Em abril é comemorado o Dia Mundial Da Saúde e o Dia Mundial da Saúde do Trabalhador. Para marcar essas datas, este episódio irá discutir uma questão muito importante: saúde e segurança no trabalho.
As medidas de saúde e segurança no trabalho desempenham um papel importante na qualidade de vida dos trabalhadores e na sua capacidade de garantir meios de vida estáveis e sustentáveis. E isso é ainda mais crucial para os trabalhadores informais, muitas vezes deixados de fora das regulamentações que lhes garantem um ambiente de trabalho seguro.
Foi pensando sobre essas que...
2019-04-1525 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#03 Occupational Health and Safety and Waste PickersOn April 7th is celebrated the World Health Day. In order to mark this date, this episode will discuss a very important issue: occupational, health and safety. Health and safety measures at work play an important role on workers quality of life, and their capacity of having a steady and sustainable livelihood. And this is even more crucial for informal workers, often left out of regulations that assure them a safe work environment.
It was thinking about this questions that the Cuidar Project came about. Seeking to understand the challenges waste pickers face in Brazil, Sonia Dias and Ana Carolina...
2019-04-0825 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#02 Urban Infrastructure, Social Protection and Women Informal WorkersMarch is the month when the international women’s day is celebrated across the world. And it is also when the United Nations commission on the status of women, CSW, holds its annual session, in New York. And this year, the chosen priority theme is: “Social Protection Systems, Access to Public Services and Sustainable Infrastructure for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls”.
To help us understand more about this topic and talk about the linkages between social protection, public services and urban infrastructure in relation to protecting the livelihoods of women informal workers we invite Laura Alfers.
Laura...
2019-03-0718 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection#01 Informal Economy and Social ProtectionAnd in this opening episode, we will discuss some of the more fundamental and general issues about social protection and informal employment.
Having access to social protection is crucial to shelter workers against risks to their incomes and help them cope after an event or shock. Informal workers are one of the most vulnerable working group, but are often left out of the reach of social protection systems.
To talk about the linkages between social protection and informal employment we invited Francie Lund.
Francie was a senior research associate at the school of development studies at the university of Kuazulu-Natal...
2019-02-1418 min
Informal Economy Podcast: Social ProtectionIntroducing the Informal Economy Podcast Social Protection - pilot episodeGlobally, 2 billion people work in the informal economy. This means that 61% of workers rely on work that offers little pay and few protections. Women informal workers, such as domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers are at the base of the economic pyramid with the highest risk of poverty. Public policies and social protection schemes often do not consider these workers, leaving them vulnerable to income losses and struggling to cope after an event or shock. In this monthly podcast we will discuss some of the most pressing issues related to social protection from the perspective of informal...
2019-02-1101 min
Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environmentWaste Picker EconomiesIn this episode, Anja calls up Dr. Jenna Jambeck and Amy Brooks from the University of Georgia on a research trip in Vietnam to learn about their research on waste management and plastic pollution. In many Asian countries, a booming economy is coupled with more and more people using throw-away items. Informal recyclers and waste pickers who have traditionally sorted the waste cannot keep up. But, like millions of people around the world, they depend on waste as a resource for their livelihoods. How can the systems be reformed without leaving the people behind? To find out more, Anja calls...
2018-10-0526 min
ParlAmericas PodcastWaste Picker Perceptions on Health and Health Risks: Perspectives from the GroundIn this episode, Ana Carolina Ogando, research associate in the urban policies programme of the global network “Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing” (or WIEGO), introduces the organization’s project “Cuidar” (or Care) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In her presentation, “Waste Picker Perceptions on Health and Health Risks: Perspectives from the Ground,” she outlines the participatory research method employed to better understand the health-related risks faced by informal workers in the city, the project’s general findings, and some of the resulting policy implications.
This episode was recorded during the 10th Gathering of the ParlAmericas Parliamentary Network for Gender Equal...
2018-06-2616 min
Midday LiveWaste pickers up in arms over job lossesA meeting between Pikitup and waste-pickers who had been employed as part of its Separate at Source initiative but are now jobless after 3 months, has taken place in Braamfontein Johannesburg. In addition, informal waste pickers fear for their livelihoods over the expanding initiative, which they say they were not consulted about. Pikitup says it did consult waste pickers through the South African Waste Pickers Associations, international organisation WIEGO as well as Waste Pickers operating at Pikitup's landfill sites. We spoke to City of Joburg MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Nico de Jager.
2017-07-0503 min
Making ContactInvisible Workers, Laboring in the ShadowsMillions of people around the world work in jobs that aren't formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. They're often not even thought of as legitimate work. On this edition of Making Contact, we're going to meet people making work where there is no work for them. From recyclers, to border couriers, to waste pickers, we're exploring the informal labor sector and what some are doing to gain greater recognition, protections, and rights. Featuring Landon Goodwin, recycler and pastor and also featured in documentary Dogtown Redemption Aicha al Azzouzi border co...
2016-08-3128 minMaking ContactInvisible Workers, Laboring in the ShadowsMillions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. They’re often not even thought of as legitimate work.
On this edition of Making Contact, we’re going to meet people making work where there is no work for them. From recyclers, to border couriers, to waste pickers, we’re exploring the informal labor sector and what some are doing to gain greater recognition, protections, and rights.
Featuring
Landon Goodwin, recycler and pastor and also featured in documentary Dogtown Redemption
Aicha al Azzouzi ...
2015-10-2128 min