#02 Urban Infrastructure, Social Protection and Women Informal Workers

Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection

March is the month when the international women’s day is celebrated across the world. And it is also when the United Nations commission on the status of women, CSW, holds its annual session, in New York. And this year, the chosen priority theme is: “Social Protection Systems, Access to Public Services and Sustainable Infrastructure for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls”. To help us understand more about this topic and talk about the linkages between social protection, public services and urban infrastructure in relation to protecting the livelihoods of women informal workers we invite Laura Alfers. Laura is the Wiego’s Social Protection programme director. She holds a PhD at the School of Built Environment and Development Studies, at The University of Kwazulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Social & Economic Research at Rhodes University, also in South Africa. You can find more information on Urban Infrastructure, Social Protection and Women Informal Workers here: Wiego at the CSW: http://www.wiego.org/content/63rd-commission-status-women-csw63 Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers http://www.wiego.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/Social%20Protection%20Informal%20Workers%20for%20web.pdf Wiego Child Care Campaign webpage: http://www.wiego.org/wiego/wiego-child-care-campaign Wiego homepage: www.wiego.org Our theme music is Focus, from A. A. Aalto (Creative Commons)