Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme

Constraints to Growth and Employment in Durban: Evidence from the Informal Economy

Urban India 2011: Evidence

The Municipal Waste and Citizenship Forum: A Platform for Social Inclusion and Participation

A critical source of success of the Belo Horizonte model of including waste pickers into urban plans has been the high level of organization...

Chapter 4 – From Street to Informal Shopping Concourse: Urban Design Solutions

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

Articulating Growth in the Urban Spectrum

Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector

This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration...

Exploring the Role of Improved Access to Public Goods and Services

This paper reports on a Policy Dialogue of the JWP (Joint Work Programme) Annual Meeting 2016. WIEGO is one of the Cities Alliance members...

Informality, Housing and Work: The View from Indian Cities

This document will focus on answering a specific set of questions concerning linking informality, housing and work.