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  • Project Reports

    Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries

    Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005

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  • Research Reports

    Empoderamiento Legal de los Trabajadores en la Economía Informal

    Estratégias para fortelecer la capacidad de las organizaciones de trabajadores y trabajadoras en empleo informal

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Manual for Domestic Workers: Organizing a Better Future

    This manual, by Committee for Asian Women (CAW) aims to assist the leaders of domestic worker groups to come out of a powerless situation...

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  • Street vendor protest Post
    Building Collective Power September 10, 2019

    In times of crisis, grassroots organizations re-imagine democratic practice

    Democratic norms are under threat worldwide. Informal workers and other marginalized groups are witnessing the reversal of hard-fought wins...

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  • Luz Elena Ramos Terrones is a newspaper vender or ‘Canillita’ in Lima, Peru

    WIEGO MBO Newsletter

    Our MBO (Membership-based Organization) Newsletter series has been revived, with a new format featuring shorter and more focused stories. ...

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  • Credit: NDWWU, Bangladesh Informational Article

    Challenges of Organizing Informal Workers

    Challenges in organizing the informal workforce can be specific to the sector or local context, but the challenges in this overview are similar...

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  • Project

    Waste Integration in South Africa (WISA)

    Informal waste pickers play an integral role in South Africa’s waste industry and keep tonnes of material out of landfills. Now, they are...

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  • Post
    Building Collective Power October 20, 2017

    Latin American Home-based Workers Celebrate Launch of New Regional Organization

    Latin American home-based workers have taken an important step in creating a unified front to fight for their visibility and rights as workers....

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  • Post
    Livelihoods July 25, 2016

    Implementing the New Urban Agenda

    How Local and National Governments  Can Support the Urban Informal Economy More than 50 per cent of the urban work force in most developing...

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