Hard efforts of street vendors in Rwanda lead to positive outcomes
9 September, 2016 Jeannette NYIRAMASENGESHO, President of Syndicat des Travailleurs Independents de l’Economie Informelle (SYTRIECI), StreetNet affiliate from Rwanda, clarifies the situation of street vendors in her country, namely after the spread of news in social media by Rwanda local government about construction of 12 mini markets for approximately 8000 former street vendors in Rwanda […]
AZIEA shows the way to monitoring levy-collection in Zambia
11 August, 2016 By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Media Officer StreetNet Affiliate from Zambia, the Alliance for Zambia Informal Economy Associations (AZIEA) was launched in October 2002. Over the years, it has faced and overcome many challenges relating to the informal economy. These include the lack of government policy on the informal sector and its development; […]
Informal economy in Georgia: challenges and opportunities
22 July, 2016 By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Media Officer Different continents, languages and cultures but the same challenges for the informal traders around the world. Today we are going to discover another region of StreetNet family – Caucasus and talk about informal economy in Georgia. Due to high level of unemployment in Georgia, the majority […]
Aaron A Boima, National Secretary-General of SLeTU, shares some history and thoughts on ILO Recommendation 204
Aaron A Boima, National Secretary-General of SLeTU, shares some history and thoughts on ILO Recommendation 204 12 July, 2016 Aaron A Boima used to work as an informal trader. He became a trade unionist more than 14 years ago. Currently he serves as the National Secretary-General of the Sierra Leone Traders Union (SLeTU), a StreetNet […]
STREETNET Americas affiliates contribute to important book
By Lauro Morillo Eleven organisations affiliated to StreetNet Americas, have written on their experiences in a book published by Trade Union Confederation of Americas (TUCA), International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Bureau for Workers´ Activities (ACTRAV-ILO). TUCA, ITUC and ACTRAV-ILO published the book Experiencias Sindicales de Formalización Mediante Organización Sindical y Diálogo Social en […]
Online crowd funding – a new experiment of StreetNet International
Dear all You may already be aware that since January 2015, StreetNet has been operating with no office, using virtual space, with a small team of three voluntary and very part-time people and a part-time bookkeeper. But we have managed to keep up with our work of making an international impression at the level of […]
Nothing for us Without Us !!
Informal workers from the sectors of street vendors, home-based workers, taxi workers, fishermen and waste pickers, attended a mass meeting at the Gandhi Luthuli Hall at the Denis Hurley Centre in Durban on 19 August 2015, to discuss the lack of progress in an ILO Project on Decent Work in eThekwini Municipality, involving all 5 […]
Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204)
Many of StreetNet’s affiliates worked hard in preparation for the discussion at the International Labour Conference in 2014 and 2015 for the adoption of a new ILO Convention on this topic – and StreetNet delegates participated in these discussions. What did we achieve? Overview: Good and not so good! GOOD ! The Recommendation contains many […]
SYTRIECI, a new African Organisation, accepted as part of the StreetNet International Family
SYTRIECI, (Syndicat des travailleurs indépendants de l’économie informelle). is a Trade Union of Independent Workers of Informal Economy. SYTRIECI was formed for the protection and promotion of rights and the well being of Independents Workers. It is apolitical and non-denominational. SYTRIECI has been founded official in February 23rd, 2014 at Kigali- Rwanda. Objectives Defend the […]
International Labour Organization adopts historical labour standard to tackle the Informal Economy
The International Labour Organization (ILO) held its annual 104th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva from 1 to 13 June, 2015. The ILC event included the participation of an estimated 3000 delegates from 185 member countries. Worker, employer and government delegates from the ILO’s 185 member States tackled a wide range of issues, including the […]
