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Informal Economy Podcast: Social ProtectionGlobally, 2 billion people work in the informal e Author: Wiego
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 highest risk of poverty. Public policies and social protection schemes often do not consider these workers, leaving them vulnerable to income losses and struggling to cope after an event or shock. In this monthly podcast we will discuss some of the most pressing issues related to social protection from the perspective of informal workers, including debates around the future of work, demographic changes and the informal economy, as well as social services, like child care and health that can protect informal workers incomes. Subscribe to the Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection to learn more about WIEGOs cutting-edge research and hear from informal workers organisations about the debates, policies, successes and challenges they face in accessing and reforming social protection systems. Language: en Genres: Government Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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#47 Learnings from WIEGO Social Protection Podcast
Thursday, 2 April, 2026
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 and I will reflect about the learnings I have made over the past 7 years of this podcast. To have this conversation, I invited WIEGO’s Social Protection Programme Director Renata Nowak-Garmer. A brief introduction: before joining WIEGO, Renata has worked for twenty years at the United Nations Development Programme, serving in more than 20 countries. In this “making-off” episode, we talked about how the podcast came about, the process, learnings and the main outcomes of the show, in particular, about its latest phase, the Systems’ Mapping.
