Urban Planning and Design

Bangkok Street Vending Ban 2016

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 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...

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...

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...

Comercio ambulante en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México