Sierra Leone Traders Union [SLeTU]: Using organizational structures to organize, inform and educate informal traders to respond to the coronavirus crisis
A conversation with Aaron A. Boima, National Secretary-General By: Vanessa Pillay (WIEGO)
6 months of pandemic: StreetNet’s response to COVID-19
When 2020 started, informal traders all over the world had no way of knowing this year would put their resilience, determination, and solidarity to a more challenging test they could hardly imagine, despite their lives always being in danger. Six months after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world, leading to crippling social and economic problems […]
Country Snapshot: India’s loan scheme for street vendors
In June 2020, the Indian government launched the Pradhan Mantri Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi scheme (or PM SVANidhi Scheme, for short), funded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The goal of this scheme, according to Prime-Minister Modi, to promote the holistic development and economic upliftment of street vendors. Amar Kharate, StreetNet International organizer […]
Country Snapshot: The basic emergency income policy in Brazil
On July 16, Maíra Vannuchi, organizer for the Americas for StreetNet International, presented a case study of the implementation of basic emergency income policy in Brazil in a side event organized by Global Platform for the Right to the City, during the High Level Political Forum 2020. The event was called “Fulfilling SDG11 & the […]
2 Billion Strong: Recovery Starts with Us!
Informal economy workers of the world are united calling for a transformation of the model of work, stating: “The economy cannot recover without us!”. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Network Global Solidarity Platform is an alliance of informal traders, home-based workers, domestic workers and waste pickers. On May 1, 2020 we issued […]
Women’s leadership, COVID-19 and informal economy workers
Oksana Abboud, the International Coordinator of StreetNet International, participated in the Cities Alliance webinar “Learning from Cities to Advance Gender Equality—The new EU Gender Action Plan in light of COVID-19”, on June 26, 2020, to share how membership-based organizations of informal economy workers can promote women’s rights in urban spaces, drawing on the experience of […]
COVID-19 and the World’s Two Billion Informal Economy Workers
DOWNLOAD THE STATEMENT (PDF) Informal economy workers’ organizations across the global economy call on governments at all levels to partner with us on relief, recovery and resilience efforts that are emerging from the grassroots during this time of unprecedented crisis. Informal Economy Workers Are — and Have Always Been — Essential Workers Street vendors and […]
