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b"Who should bear the main burden of social service: is it the state, the private sector, NGOs, communities or individuals? This is a very complex discussion, so central to questions of rising inequality. In order to contribute to this debate, Laura Alfers has published a paper for the UNRISD Conference \\u201cOvercoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilization\\u201d, which took place in Geneva, last November.\\nLaura\\u2019s paper is concerned with how informal workers\\u2019 organizations have become involved in health service provision \\u2013 something that is often termed \\u201cco-production.\\u201d She draws from two case studies, one from India and another one from Thailand, to explain how grassroots organizations have taken important roles in the provision on social services.\\nLaura Alfers is WIEGO\\u2019s Social Protection Director and Research Associate in Rhodes University, in South Africa. She is here again with us to discuss the issues surrounding \\u201cInformal Workers Co-Producing Social Services in the Global South\\u201d, the title of her paper.\\n\\nRESOURCES\\nConference paper: Informal Workers Co-Producing Social Services in the Global South: Task Shifting or Political Strategy towards a New Social Contract?, by Laura Alfers. Draft paper prepared for the UNRISD Conference Overcoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilization 8\\u20139 November 2018, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.unrisd.org/80256B42004CCC77/(httpInfoFiles)/3DB49A55A790DBFCC12583390051DA55/$file/Overcoming%20Inequalities%205b_Alfers---Final.pdf\\n \\nBlog: In India, One-stop Shops Increase Access to Healthcare, Nutrition and Social Security Services for Working Poor, by Laura Alfers http://www.wiego.org/blog/india-one-stop-shops-increase-access-healthcare-nutrition-and-social-security-services-working-\\n \\nBridges to Better Lives: SEWA's Community Health Workers, by Annie Devenish and Laura Alfers. Workers\\u2019s Lives brief 7. http://www.wiego.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/WL7_Devenish_Alfers%20final%20for%20web.pdf\\n\\nForging a New Conceptualization of \\u201cThe Public\\u201d in Waste Management, by Melanie Samson. WIEGO Working Paper 32. http://www.wiego.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/Samson-Public-Waste-Management-WIEGO-WP32.pdf\\n\\nOur theme music is Focus, from A. A. Aalto (Creative Commons)"