Women's Leadership

Jennifer Thaís Santos Fernandes, member of the National Movement of Waste Pickers in Brazil

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Repensando a articulação entre catadores, gestão integrada e sustentável de resíduous sólidos e desenvolvimento

Este artigo intenta explorar alguns dos desafios, paradoxos e limites no processo de associação do lixo à cidadania, chamando particularmente...

Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....

Waste Pickers: A Gendered Perspective

Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil

This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory...

Empowering Home-based Workers in India: Strategies and Solutions

This publication is an outcome of a grant from the Tata Trusts to the Harvard University South Asia Institute for a project on ‘Livelihood...

The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance

Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...

Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women: FLOW 2012 – 2015

This is the final report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands on the FLOW (Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women)...

Waste Pickers and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

Macroeconomic policy and women’s economic empowerment

This discussion paper is the result of a collaboration initiated in consultation with several members of the United Nations Secretary-General’s...