Presentation by Rachel Moussie (Deputy Director of Social Protection Programme, WIEGO) for the ICTD's virtual roundtable on "Covid-19 and the Informal Economy: Responses, Relief, and Research"
For more on WIEGO's work during the crisis: https://www.wiego.org/covid19crisis
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Rapid Assessment: Impact of Public Health Measures on Informal Workers
1. RAPID ASSESSMENT: IMPACT
OF PUBLIC HEALTH
MEASURES ON INFORMAL
WORKERS
WIEGO – Rachel Moussie, Social Protection Programme
Kayayeis (head porters) in Accra, Ghana
Jonathan Torgovnik : Getty Images 1
2. Presentation Overview
Key findings from Rapid Assessment
Emergency relief responses and informal workers
Research and advocacy priorities for informal workers
organisations
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3. Rapid Assessment
21 national or local member-based organizations (MBOs), five regional and global
networks of informal workers organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America (23
March – 8 April)
4 Sectors: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and market
traders, and waste pickers
Public health measures include:
Lockdown in large global economies
Border closures
Physical distancing
Semi-lockdown
Full-lockdown
https://www.wiego.org/sites/default/files/resources/file/Impact_on_livelihoods_COVID-
19_final_EN.pdf
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4. Rapid Assessment: Key Findings
Impacts felt since January in some sectors
Permanent loss of income, not a temporary loss
Increased care work for women workers – paid and unpaid
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5. Emergency relief and informal workers
Income support measures through cash transfers
WIEGO tracking those accessible to informal workers
Digital and financial exclusion
Exclusion of less visible workers – domestic workers and home-
based workers
Essential Workers include informal workers
Increasingly recognised: food producers and vendors, waste pickers
Unrecognised: live-in domestic workers, home-based workers,
childcare providers
Protective health measures and protective gear
https://www.wiego.org/covid19crisis
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6. Guiding Principles
Leave No One Behind – ensure relief & recovery mechanisms benefit…
informal wage workers – not just formal wage workers
informal enterprises – not just formal enterprises
Do No Harm
do not penalize informal workers
do not destroy their homes & workplaces
do not reverse legal and policy gains made by informal workers
Honor “Nothing for Us, Without Us”
design of relief & recovery measures: informal workers included in
negotiations
delivery of relief & recovery measures: partner with informal worker
organizations
7. Research and advocacy priorities
Next round of Rapid Assessment in two months
Livelihoods recovery and resilience framework
Formalization?
Extension of social protection programmes beyond emergency
period
Access to public care services – healthcare and childcare
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