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Governments must include home-based workers in social protection and climate policy, and ratify ILO Convention 177. ➡️ Join HNI in making #DecentWork a reality for #HomeBasedWorkers: buff.ly/YkCANU3
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After these talks, the ministry announced subsidies of 30–60% on clean energy and energy-saving equipment in December 2024.
These solutions work, but workers should not have to pay for them alone.
But home-based workers are not waiting to be rescued. 🇺🇬 In Uganda, home-based workers had no direct line to government, so they built one. Their network, Ngalo Buwereza, joined forces with a trade union to bring their climate concerns to the Ministry of Environment.
🎉 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.
Now they are asking the government to help pay for it. These solutions work, but workers should not have to pay for them alone. Governments must include home-based workers in social protection and climate policy, and ratify ILO Convention 177.
But home-based workers are not waiting to be rescued. 🇮🇳 In Ahmedabad, @SEWAComm piloted a heat insurance scheme that covered 250,000 members in 2025. When temperatures pass an agreed limit, it pays out for lost work, and members can borrow the premium from SEWA's own bank.
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.
[📰 HNI News] Meet Evans: Crafting a Livelihood from Home in Nairobi
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🌟 Governments can take a concrete step by ratifying ILO Convention 177 on home work. Join HNI in making #DecentWork a reality for home-based workers:
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On International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we call on governments to listen to the workers who live this reality every day. Ending poverty means fair pay, social protection and the right to organise for every worker, wherever they work.
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.
[📰 Noticias HNI] Construir unidad desde la base: COTRADO ALAC convoca al Encuentro Regional Sindical
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Governments can take a concrete step by ratifying ILO Convention 177 on home work. Join HNI in making #DecentWork a reality for home-based workers:
buff.ly/YkCANU3
On International Day of Rural Women, HomeNet International stands with the rural women in our networks who are organising for recognition, fair pay and a voice in the decisions that shape their lives. Recognising their work starts with recognising them as workers.
Their work supports family incomes and global supply chains, yet it rarely appears in labour statistics, social protection systems or minimum wage rules.
🚜 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.
[📰 HNI News] Ak-Bayrak Finds a New Home for Children with Disabilities
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[📰 HNI News] What Does “The Workplace” Look Like When It’s a Tiny Corner of Your Bedroom?
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