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Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection

by Wiego
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About the show

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 WIEGO’s 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.

Latest episodes

  • #47 Learnings from WIEGO Social Protection Podcast

    April 2, 2026 · 21 min

    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…

  • #46 Expanding social security delivery to informal workers

    October 24, 2025 · 26 min

    In this episode, we conclude the building block of delivery and provision of social protection from our social protection solar system. After discussing the role of informal workers’ organizations in the delivery of childcare and…

  • #45 Workers-led delivery of Healthcare and Social Protection

    August 12, 2025 · 23 min

    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 this second episode of the series, we will turn to India, to understand how informal…

  • #44 Towards a social insurance levy on capital

    June 9, 2025 · 33 min

    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 challenges to finance social protection in a time of very deep transformations in the world of…

  • #43 Workers-led Delivery of Child Care in Markets

    April 11, 2025 · 34 min

    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 social protection. We will be looking at the innovations in the delivery of services and…

  • #42 Social Dialogue and Social Protection for Informal Workers

    January 9, 2025 · 41 min

    In the fourth and last episode of the governance building block we dive into the discussion of social dialogue and social protection for informal workers. But what does social dialogue actually mean? How can in be used as a tool to improve…

  • #41 Governance, Social Protection And Law

    November 21, 2024 · 30 min

    In the third episode of the governance building block we move on to the discussion of legal frameworks and social protection. How can legal provisions of participation, access to information, transparency and equality be leveraged to…

  • #40 Political Economy Of Digital Social Protection In Mozambique

    August 30, 2024 · 36 min

    In the second episode of the governance building block we continue to discuss the issues surrounding digitization and social protection. This time, we take a political economy perspective to understand the interests, ideas, actors and…