Theme: Building Collective Power

Waste pickers’ cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations

Waste pickers make significant contributions to public health, sanitation, and the environment by promoting resource circulation and reducing...

Interactions between Workers’ Organizations and Workers in the Informal Economy: A Compendium of Practice

This Compendium demonstrates successful interactions by workers organizations with workers in the informal economy to reduce decent work...

March 1-5: Activities mark Int’l Waste Pickers’ Day

On March 1st, waste pickers around the globe will mark International Waste Pickers’ Day. Activities on that day and through the week...

Social Dialogue for the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy

Six case studies in this Global Deal thematic brief are based on research commissioned from WIEGO. Jane Barrett, Director of Organization...

Worker Rights in Informal Economies

In this article, contained in the volume Organising Precarious Workers in the Global South (Beyond Slavery/Open Democracy), Sally Roever...

Enfocandonos en las trabajadoras informales: recicladoras de basura

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WIEGO’s Work with Cooperatives

Cooperatives are an important form of democratic organization and solidarity for informal workers, who come together to gain access to services...

Project to help improve working conditions for Mbeubeuss waste pickers

WIEGO and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched a joint initiative to work with waste pickers at Mbeubeuss, the largest...

Brazilian recyclers take the wheel in door to door collection

In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a new model of selective collection has given informal catadores (recyclers) responsibility for collecting door-to-door...

Third Regional Meeting of Home-based Worker Organizations and Supporters in Latin America

• September 18, 2019 - September 19, 2019
• Lima, Perú

WIEGO, together with Coordinadora Regional de Organizaciones de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras en Domicilio en América Latina y el Caribe (COTRADO-ALAC),...