SSE and Cooperatives

Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

Organising Informal Transport Workers: A Case Study of Zambia

Recycling Livelihoods: A Global Network Supports Waste-Pickers in Latin America

Standing for long hours in line to receive your first paycheck may sound pretty stressful. However, for recyclers in Bogotá, their first...

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...

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...

WIEGO MBO Newsletter

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

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...

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...

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....

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...