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  • Working Papers

    Eficiência e Solidariedade nas Associações de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis

    As associações e cooperativas de catadores são formadas a partir da situação de vulnerabilidade social dos seus membros. A maior parte dos...

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  • Research Reports

    Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia

    Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”

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  • Working Papers

    Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, Catadores, Participação e Cidadania – Novas Articulações?

    This paper traces back the origins of the conceptual framework Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management, and examines how this concept...

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  • Research Reports

    Certification of Occupational Skills: A Decisive Step Towards Professionalizing Waste Picking as an Occupation and Recycling of Solid Waste in Colombia

    This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

    Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...

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  • Research Reports

    Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

    Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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  • Policy Briefs

    The Municipal Waste and Citizenship Forum: A Platform for Social Inclusion and Participation

    A critical source of success of the Belo Horizonte model of including waste pickers into urban plans has been the high level of organization...

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  • Research Reports

    Managing Urban Waste as Common Pool Resources

    Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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  • Policy Briefs

    Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil....

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  • Research Reports

    Waste Pickers: Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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