Research & Insights
The workshop started with registration of the workshop. All together 41 participants (32 female and 9 male) from 7 countries registered for the workshop. The participants from Nepal, India, Bangladesh
The Second Advisory Board Meeting of HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) was held on the 11th and 12th of May, 2017, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
This action research project has been carried out by Home Net South Asia with research inputs from the Institute of Social Studies Trust. The study teams in each country included Zaitun Pathan
In the South Asian region, women can play an important role in peace building activities by connecting to each other through their occupations. The ties women establish through their work within and
Regional Workshop on Home based workers in Asia: Building a Regional Presence Mumbai, April 7th and 8th, 2008. The key objective of this workshop was to build solidarity and facilitate mutual
HomeNet Nepal in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) India and Nepal office, Global Labour Institute, Geneva and HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) organized a workshop on “Towards Securer Lives
Homebased Workers are among the most vulnerable of all urban informal workers. They work within or near their homes as own account (self-employed) or subcontracted workers. Because they work in their
home-based work included skilled artisan production and entrepreneurial activities as well as low-skilled manual work and survival activities. In recent decades, new forms of home-based work have
The joint Conference-Workshop was participated in by 39 representatives from five (5)South Asian countries, namely, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and India and seven (7) Southeast Asia
This manual was written by Dave Spooner and edited by Celia Mather. Our special thanks go to the staff of WIEGO, HomeNet South Asia, the SEWA Academy, and GLI for all their information, advice and
Homeworkers are part of a broader category of workers called home-based workers. It is the location or place of work that characterizes home-based workers.
The 'key issues' studies of urban poor homebased workers in South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan) and Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines) profiled below