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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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  • WIEGO Publication Series

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Accra Metropolis

    WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal...

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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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  • Journal Articles

    Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economyLondon School of Economics and Political Science

    This paper uses the case of Uganda’s capital Kampala to explore how political configurations overturn structures of city governance, with...

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  • Journal Articles

    Comercio ambulante en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

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