Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Formalizing Street Vendors

Sally Roever, WIEGO’s Urban Research Director, gave this presentation at a dialogue on formalizing the informal economy in Montevideo, Uruguay...

IEMS: La Investigación-Acción Lleva y Resultados Concretos

VIDEO: The Gender and Waste Project, Brazil

In this video-message for the Urban Thinkers Campus WIEGO´s waste specialist Sonia Dias and the MNCR waste picker leader Madalena Duarte...

PrepCom3: Dialogos exitosos entre vendedores ambulantes y el gobierno de Lima – parte 1

En el marco del Tercer Comité preparatorio para Habitat 3, Gloria Solorzano, una lider peruana de la Red Nacional de Trabajadores Autoempleados...

Informal Housing and Work: The View from Indian Cities

Presentation from the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Global Economic Crisis Study 2 – Fact Sheet

WIEGO Brochure

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Urban planning and design: laws, regulations, and the informal city

The website explains that “this discussion will consider how cities can use spatial planning as a means to social integration, and...

WIEGO’s Focal Cities Work in Lima

Implementing several of WIEGO’s initiatives in two cities – Lima, capital of Peru, in South America, and Accra, capital of Ghana,...

In Gujarat, no homes for the construction workers who make everybody’s dream homes

Recently Narendra Modi got a new office for himself and his ministers at the cost of 150 crores and named it ‘Swarnim Sankul’. Question is...