Urban Planning and Design

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...

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...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

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...

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...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

Report available in English here.Informe disponible en español aquí.Fact Sheet available in English here.Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

Policies, Regulations and Organizational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya

IDS Discussion Paper Number 299

Durban Street Traders

This report provides a disaggregated analysis of known street vendors in the eThekwini Municipality by type of area, with further disaggregation...

India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...