Who is missing
from the table?
Too many conversations about work, exclusion and opportunity happen without the people closest to those realities in the room.
Take a seat ↓Hidden Worker Forum.
A place for lived experience to shape the conversation. A table where evidence becomes a starting point for opportunity.
Bringing hidden workers, civil society, research and institutions into one conversation — with different roles, but a shared question: what makes opportunity possible?
One shared question:
what makes opportunity possible?
People are already working.
Are our systems seeing them?
The Hidden Worker Forum is a proposed space connecting hidden workers, community organisations, researchers and institutions around work that is too often overlooked.
Its purpose is to turn lived experience and evidence into useful insights, stronger connections and practical routes towards opportunity.
Shared purpose.
Distinct contributions.
A convening partnership supported by research and knowledge production.
The Hidden Worker Foundation
Keeping hidden work, dignity and opportunity at the centre of the conversation.
Nosi Foundation
Bringing a civil-society perspective to the Forum’s development and community engagement.
Bogoni Research
Supporting evidence-led dialogue, synthesis and the development of useful knowledge outputs.
Start with
better questions.
01 What work are we failing to see?
Informal trade, care, independent work and the everyday effort of building a livelihood. What becomes visible when we listen beyond employment status?
02 Who can actually access opportunity?
Skills matter. So do information, networks, resources and the systems that decide who gets through the door.
03 How does evidence become action?
Connecting research with community priorities, institutional decisions and interventions that people can use.
04 What helps local organisations deliver?
Exploring the relationship between governance, funding readiness, partnerships and credible evidence of impact.
A conversation should
leave something behind.
Bring the experience.
Start with a clear question and hear from the people closest to it.
Work through the evidence.
Connect lived experience with research and perspectives from practice.
Carry the learning forward.
Capture insights in a short knowledge brief and identify possible next steps.
Different seats.
One table.
Dialogue becomes
usable knowledge.
The Forum is intended to move beyond conversation alone. Insights can be synthesised into short knowledge outputs that preserve what was heard, connect it to evidence and help identify possible next steps.
A short knowledge brief.
A focused record of the question, the perspectives raised, relevant evidence and practical areas worth carrying forward.
Bring a question.
Bring a perspective.
Interested in contributing lived experience, research or an institutional perspective? Get in touch about the proposed Forum.
Contact us about the Forum ↗