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Advocacy

StreetNet supports its affiliated organizations in their daily work of advocacy and lobbying to influence governments at various levels (from local/municipal to international). Our collective goal is to include street vendors in negotiations that affect our lives, legitimize the contribution of street vending to countries’ economies, to decriminalize our activities, ensure decent work and access to social protection and labour rights.

Our demands

Recognition as workers

We fight for the recognition of street vendors as part of the global working class

Inclusive social dialogue

We work to grant access to street vendors to fair and equitable negotiation with government, trade unions and employers' representatives.

Decent working conditions

Street vendors should have access to safe and healthy work places, free of violence and harassment.

Extension of social protection

Social protection schemes should be extended to all workers, including the ones in the informal economy

Just transition to formality

We fight for a transition to formality that respects street vendors' labour rights

International advocacy spaces

  • International Labour Conference
The main policies of the ILO are set by the International Labour Conference, which meets once a year in June, in Geneva, Switzerland. This annual Conference brings together governments’, workers’ and employer’s delegates of the ILO member States in a tripartite negotiation forum.

StreetNet has participated every year since 2004, along with other global networks of informal economy workers. In addition, StreetNet members have also participated as workers’ delegates in their respective national delegations. We make sure the perspective of street vendors is heard at the highest level and included in the policy recommendations.

Some of our achievements at the International Labour Conference, for which StreetNet contributed, include the Recommendation 204 on the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy, 2015; and the mention of informal economy in Article 2 and Article 8 of Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019
  • UN Habitat
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme is the UN programme for sustainable urban development. Together with allies, most notably the Global Platform of the Right to the City, we advocate for equitable access to public space for street vendors, end of harassment and decent working conditions.
  • UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

CSW is the functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Know more about our advocacy work

  • Other links
Street Vendor Stories
Advocacy
Campaigns
Informal Cross-Border Trade
Informal women workers in Ukraine

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