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In November 2023 HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) held a webinar on the issue of climate change which provided a comprehensive overview of the challenges faced by individuals working from home. The discussion centred on three critical aspects: drought, extreme heating, and excessive rains, and their repercussions on the livelihoods and well-being of home-based workers.The three...

HomeNet Africa carried forward the lessons learnt from the implementation of the livelihood projects with HomeNet Kenya membership in the period 2021/2022 and rolled out a technical support approach to the HomeNet International affiliates in Uganda. The program supports beekeeping, fruit-drying and fish farming initiatives by the affiliates.The activity took place in the Kayunga district...

HomeNet Africa Strategic Planning and Implementation Oversight Committee is a team of individuals drawn from each of the participating country networks of home-based workers (HBWs) from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda and South Africa. The Committee held a three-day meeting between the 2nd and 6th of October, 2023, at the MS-TCDC Arusha, Tanzania.The group met...

HomeNet Kenya hosts HomeNet International's inaugural Strategic Planning Meeting, paving the way for HNI's 4-year plan and focusing on HNI's global advocacy campaign for Home-Based Workers' rights and key programs like the Access to Markets Programme, highlighting their significance in advancing the welfare of HBWs worldwide....

On March 8, 2021 (Women’s Day), HomeNet South Asia launched its campaign - #HomeIsWhereTheArtIs - to bring visibility to its home-based worker-led producer companies, enterprises and cooperatives. The campaign is a showcase of solidarity and also looks to highlight the work of thousands of women home-based workers and their representative organisations. Most importantly, they want...

The Kathmandu Declaration in 2000 established October 20 as Home-based Workers’ Day. To commemorate the day, every year, Network members across the world organize a series of events and demonstrations aimed at drawing attention to the situation of home-based workers and to present a series of demands, including: Ratification of ILO Convention 177 on Homework and creation of...