Urban Planning and Design

Le gouvernement ghanéen laisse les récupératrice·eur·s de matériaux se débrouiller seul·e·s face à la pandémie de la COVID-19

En pleine pandémie COVID-19, alors que les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel du monde entier luttent pour gagner leur vie, le gouvernement...

Impactos da pandemia de COVID-19 sobre reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

No Place for Street Vendors: Global Capital and Local Exclusion in an East Asian Immigrant Enclave of New York City

The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood...

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

Totally reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important if we take into consideration that waste pickers are an essential part...

Informal Economy Revisited bookcover

The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

Panorama dos impactos da pandemia COVID-19 na reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

Overview of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

Reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important, with waste pickers an essential part of Brazil’s economy, write Sonia Dias, Ricardo...

ILO COOP 100 Webinar III – Cooperatives for Climate Action

• July 3, 2020
• Online

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. CEST (GMT+2) The International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) is celebrated on the first Saturday of July every year. The...

Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC): Informal Workers & COVID-19: Impact and Vision for the Future

• July 14, 2020
• Online

Sixty-one per cent of all workers –2 billion people– are informally employed.  Many of those who work informally, live in slums and their...