Women's Leadership

CSW69 Side Event: Women’s Collective Power for Public Good: Where are we now, 30 years on?

• March 13, 2025

CATA – Climate Change and Women Waste Pickers

Why African Craft Makers Should Understand Supply Chains Better

African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could...

Women’s Leadership

Overturning the Productivity Mandate: Putting People at the Centre

It is a myth that cooperatives, which put people at the centre, are not a viable alternative to the current economic system because they...

Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?

The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward...

‘We Are Not Alone’: Waste Pickers Worldwide Unite

In this interview, Leonor Larraburu of the Unión de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Economía Popular (UTEP) in Argentina tells us about...

Waste Pickers Organize Into a Cooperative: Will Senegal Include Them in its Waste Management Plan?

Waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite have set up their own cooperative in an effort to be integrated into the new waste management model...

Coura Ndiaye – a waste picker leader in Dakar, Senegal

Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker –...

Gender Action Plan 2021-2023

The Gender and Waste project carried out, from 2019-2020, workshops on communications and leadership skills, feminism, and public policies....