As so many of us have experienced by now, the pandemic rapidly deepened pre-existing inequalities and exposed vulnerabilities in social, political, and economic systems. More than a year after the first breakout, the Global South is in the thick of it, and the dimensions of this crisis continue to expand.
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States have taken extraordinary measures to respond to the multiple upheavals throughout the pandemic, accelerating political changes which may be central to a new normal that’s emerging.
DAWN, as part of its Policy Transformation project, has been examining how these policy shifts project into the future in four areas:
(a) macroeconomics
(b) labour policies and workers’ rights
(c) migration and human mobilities
(d) care and social protection
Two particular areas of interest are informality and alternative policy responses from and for the Global South. The first Talk of 2021 will feature Rachel Moussié, Deputy Director of WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) with DAWN’s General Co-Coordinator, María Graciela Cuervo.
Rachel and María Graciela will address the expansion of social protection policies to informal workers, with a specific focus on women workers, as well as policy changes during the pandemic. The Talk will also focus on recommendations from informal workers in the Global South, as well as feminist visions for the aftermath of this pandemic period.
Read more about WIEGO’s work on social protection here.
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Get ahead of the conversation and download the Executive Summary of the Policy Transformation analytical framework here: