This webinar will serve to launch global findings for the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study, funded by the IDRC. Panelists including researchers, practitioners and representatives of informal workers will expose:
- how the pandemic is impacting different categories of workers in cities across the world—home-based workers, domestic workers, street vendors and market traders, and waste pickers;
- the varied impacts of COVID-19 based on occupations and gender, and how these findings should inform policies for economic recovery; and
- what has changed more than one year into the pandemic and what national and municipal governments are doing right—and wrong—to support economic recovery in the informal economy.
Panelists:
- Marty Chen (Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, WIEGO)
- Manop Kaewphaka (President of Federation of Informal Workers Thailand)
- Gloria Solarzano (Leader of Red Nacional de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Autoempleados (RENATTA))
- Carmen Roca (Coordinator for Focal City Lima, WIEGO)
- Poonsap Tulaphan (Director of Homenet Thailand and HNI IWC member)
- Sally Roever (International Coordinator, WIEGO)
The panel will be moderated by Erin Tansey, Director, Sustainable Inclusive Economies, IDRC.
