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...
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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...
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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)...
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Journal Articles
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...
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Global Reports
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...
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Political Platform for the Rights of Domestic Workers in Mexico
This Political Platform was developed during the 1st Regional Exchange of Experiences of Women Domestic Workers: Convention 189 and...
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Policy/Position Documents
Proposals and demands of workers in informal employment for the new government of Mexico City
This Platform contains a list of proposals and demands to move towards guaranteeing the rights of informal workers. This document can also...
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Audiovisual Materials
A Beijing Recycler’s Life
This video follows recyclers in Beijing and shares the work they have been doing for 20 years. The video is in Chinese with English subtitles....
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Audiovisual Materials
Catadoras and Catadores: Working in recycling cooperatives
Production: André Carrieri and Jutta Gutberlet The video lasts 27 minutes and describes the work of organized recyclers (catadores) pervading...
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Waste & Gender: Rethinking Relations for Empowerment
Little research exists about gender relations and divisions among waste pickers. A collaborative in Latin America has shed light on the multiple...
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