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Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection

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 work...

Episodes

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#47 Learnings from WIEGO Social Protection Podcast

Today, our show reaches its final episode. So we decided to do something different to mark this date. This time around, I will be the guest...

00:20:41Apr 2, 2026

#46 Expanding social security delivery to informal workers

In this episode, we conclude the building block of delivery and provision of social protection from our social protection solar system. Afte...

00:26:28Oct 24, 2025

#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 protect...

00:23:00Aug 12, 2025

#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...

00:32:51Jun 9, 2025

#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 provis...

00:34:22Apr 11, 2025

#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 inf...

00:41:19Jan 9, 2025

#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...

00:30:22Nov 21, 2024

#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. Thi...

00:35:32Aug 30, 2024

#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 h...

00:31:24Jul 23, 2024

#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 worke...

00:34:30Apr 22, 2024

#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 clos...

00:28:17Feb 29, 2024

#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 registrat...

00:28:50Jan 9, 2024

#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 e...

00:33:09Nov 28, 2023

#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 e...

00:27:12Sep 12, 2023

#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 socia...

00:20:00Jul 12, 2023

#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 protecti...

00:47:29Jul 12, 2023

#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...

00:30:34Apr 25, 2023

#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 diffe...

00:40:00Feb 16, 2023

#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...

00:29:16Dec 2, 2022

#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...

00:29:57Sep 19, 2022