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  • Advocacy Materials
  • informal waste pickers in Accra Technical Briefs

    Waste Incineration and Informal Livelihoods: A Technical Guide on Waste-to-Energy Initiatives

    This brief provides waste picker organizations, policymakers and practitioners with information about waste-to-energy initiatives, and solid...

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  • Members of Bokk Diom and local fisherfolk cleaning a beach together in Dakar. Project

    Reducing Waste in Coastal Cities through Inclusive Recycling

    The RWCC Project Waste pickers worldwide contribute significantly in preventing ocean waste pollution by recycling and reusing materials...

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  • WIEGO in the World Newsletter

      July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

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  • Brazilian catadores with truck News
    SSE and Cooperatives September 21, 2019

    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...

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  • Resource Documents

    Literature Survey: Mega-Events and the Working Poor, with a Special Reference to the 2010 FIFA World Cup

    This literature survey draws together and synthesizes research that has been done on mega events, with a particular focus on the 2010 World...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: 'Citizens' versus the Urban Poor

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

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  • Research Reports

    People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

    Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

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  • Budget Briefs

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

      This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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