Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
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Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
Globally, 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 hig...
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#45 Workers-led delivery of Healthcare and Social Protection
In this episode, we resume the building block of our social protection solar system on the topic of delivery and provision of social protection. In th...
#44 Towards a social insurance levy on capital
In this episode we take a pause from the discussion around delivery and provision of social protection benefits and take a fresh look at the challenge...
#43 Workers-led Delivery of Child Care in Markets
In 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 soc...
#42 Social Dialogue and Social Protection for Informal Workers
In the fourth and last episode of the governance building block we dive into the discussion of social dialogue and social protection for informal work...
#41 Governance, Social Protection And Law
In the third episode of the governance building block we move on to the discussion of legal frameworks and social protection.
How can legal prov...
#40 Political Economy Of Digital Social Protection In Mozambique
In the second episode of the governance building block we continue to discuss the issues surrounding digitization and social protection. This time, we...
#39 Governance And Digitization Of Social Protection
In 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 invite...
#38 Registration Challenges For Domestic Workers In Latin America
In the third episode of the registration block we travel to Latin America to take a regional overview of this issue regarding domestic workers. To lea...
#37 Registration For Social Protection In Cambodia
In episode five of the systems’ mapping, building blocks approach, we continue to explore the topic of registration. This time, we look closely at the...
#36 Digitization and Registration In South Africa
And 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 i...
#35 Innovations to Financing Social Protection in a Changing World of Work
This is the third and last episode of the financing building block. Previously, we discussed alternative ways to finance social protection extension f...
#34 Financing Social Protection for Gig Workers in Rajasthan
The 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...
#33b Financiación de la Protección Social de los Recicladores en India y Argentina
WIEGO inaugura una nueva etapa de su podcast. A partir de este episodio, vamos a comprender mejor las piezas del sistema de protección social, para po...
#33 Financing Social Protection for Waste Pickers in India and Argentina
WIEGO 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,...
#32 Challenging Global Social Protection Orthodoxies - part 2
In 2021, WIEGO has launched the project “Challenging the global orthodoxies which undermine Universal Social Protection”. In a nutshell, the project a...
#31 Online Capacity Building on Social Protection for Informal Workers
The 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 i...
#30 India's Social Registry of Informal Workers
In 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 o...
#29 Social and Solidarity Economy and Informal Workers
Social 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 Intern...
#28 COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study: round 2
In 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 d...
#27 Social Security for Domestic Workers: trends and strategies
For decades, domestic workers have struggled to be recognized and to enjoy the same rights as other workers – including social protection rights. Ther...
#26 Challenging Global Social Protection Orthodoxies
Over the last few years, universal social protection and the government responses to the Covid-19 crisis has generated important debates in the field...
#25 Social Insurance for Informal Workers in South Africa
The 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 stren...
#24 Lessons from the Covid-19 crisis for social protection
For 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...
#23b Cuidado Infantil para Trabajadoras Informales
La pandemia ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia crucial de la prestación de servicios de cuidado infantil. En este episodio, nos fijamos en cómo la...
#23 Child Care for Informal Workers in Argentina
The pandemic has highlighted the crucial importance of child care provision.
In this episode, we look at how the Unión de Trabajadores d...
#22 ILC Reflections
After 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 Conf...
#21 Covid-19 Vaccination And Informal Workers
In 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...
#20 Covid-19 Crisis, Relief Policies and Care Impact on Informal Workers
In this episode, we explore how Covid-19 crisis affected informal workers care responsibilities and to which extent the government responses addressed...
#19b Gender-Based Violence and Informal Workers - part 2
In the second episode of the mini-series, the Informal Economy Podcast: social protection joins the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violenc...
#19 Gender-Based Violence and Informal Workers - part 1
In this episode, the Informal Economy Podcast: social protection joins the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence against women”. In this...
#18 Social Protection Needs For Older Informal Workers
In 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...
#17 Universal Basic Income In South Africa
In 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...
#16 Challenges To Protect Informal Workers Livelihoods In Peru And Mexico
In 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 Amer...
#16b Retos para Proteger a Los Medios de Vidas de Trabajadores Informales en Peru y Mexico
En 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 país...
#15 Lessons From Government Responses to Protect Informal Workers
And 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...
#14 Impact of the Global Pandemic on Informal Workers - Covid-19 edition
In 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 up...
#13 Protecting informal workers amid the global pandemic - Covid-19 edition
In 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 h...
#12 Child Care Models For Women Informal Workers
In 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 p...
#11 Statistics, Social Protection and Informal Employment
In 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 w...
#10 The Future of Work and the Missing Middle
In this episode, we invited Christina Behrendt. Christina, head of the Social Policy Unit at the ILO, to talk about the relations between the Future o...