🎉 Today we honour the workers who keep producing through floods, storms and record heat. They did the least to cause the climate crisis, yet they pay the highest price. When your home is your workplace, a flood takes your stock, your tools and your income at once.

Today we honour the workers who keep producing through floods, storms and record heat. They did the least to cause the climate crisis, yet they pay the highest price. When your home is your workplace, a flood takes your stock, your tools and your income at once.

The @ILO estimates there are around 260 million home-based workers worldwide, and for many of them poverty comes from piece rates that don’t cover their costs, payments that arrive late or never, and no social protection when orders dry up or illness strikes.

🚜 In rural communities around the world, women stitch, weave, roll, pack and process goods from their homes, often while farming, caring for children and running households at the same time. Many of them are home-based workers.

On this World Day for Decent Work, HomeNet International calls on governments to ratify and implement #C177 and to make sure decent work reach every home-based worker.

We call on GOVs to recognise homes as workplaces, to guarantee basic services in informal settlements, and to ratify ILO Convention 177 so that labour rights reach homeworkers where they actually work. Adequate housing for all must also mean decent work at home. 💪🏽

... , and where they raise their families. When a house floods, overheats, or lacks water, electricity or light, a family's safety is at risk, and so is its income. Housing policy that ignores the home as a workplace leaves these workers behind.

🏡 This World Habitat Day, under the theme "Adequate Housing for All," we remember that for home-based workers, housing is about more than shelter. Their homes are where they sew 🪡, weave 🧺, cook 🥘, assemble and pack goods for local and global markets 🧴...

📬 ¡Ya está disponible nuestro nuevo boletín trimestral, con un diseño completamente renovado! 🤩 El número 17 trae las últimas novedades de HomeNet Internacional y de nuestra red de organizaciones de personas trabajadoras en domicilio. 🔗 Léelo aquí: buff.ly/AlQvHW0

📬 Our new quarterly newsletter is out, with a brand new design! 🤩 Issue #17 brings you the latest from HomeNet International and our network of home-based workers' organizations 🔗 buff.ly/QRkIdCG ✉️ Not subscribed yet? buff.ly/5ZEdyjA

Our sister Rebecca Nyaluke from Tanzania, said a lack of smartphones, digital skills and transport keeps homeworkers from reaching buyers online. Her message: when workers meet, the burden feels lighter. #C193 #HomeBasedWorkers

Edwin Bett of HomeNet Kenya presented our joint research with APSP: digital social protection doesn't remove old barriers, it adds new ones. And because regulation is still written for formal work, workers in the informal economy need new ways to join contributory schemes.

This week in Mauritius, HNI joined @WIEGOGLOBAL's workshop on building worker power in the age of data, digitalisation and platformisation. Home-based workers, domestic workers, platform workers and unions from across Africa were there. 🧵

Janhavi Dave, our Advisor, sheds light on the people often invisibilized: home-based workers, 95% of them women, usually separated from brands by as many as seven intermediaries. Read @VogueBusiness' full article: buff.ly/7DzVrZU buff.ly/8mRrJeW

We're at the WINGS Forum 2026 in Montréal! Our Intl. Coordinator Jemima Nyakongo is joining philanthropy leaders from around the world — alongside WIEGO and fellow networks representing the informal economy — to discuss how funding can move from analysis to real action.

When care systems fail, home-based workers absorb the cost — in longer hours, lower earnings and health risks. Recognising care infrastructure is also a step towards recognising homework itself — the aim of ILO Convention 177.

For home-based workers, care is not a separate issue from work. Millions of women produce garments, food, crafts and services in the same rooms where they raise children and look after older relatives, with no childcare, safe water, reliable electricity nor social protection.

Last week, our President, Josephine Olive Parilla, joined the @UN_Women's #TransformCare Investment Initiative, bringing the priorities of home-based workers into the discussion alongside @GAllianceCare @WIEGOglobal @IDWFed @CITYNET_ORG and @uclg_org