Theme: Women's Leadership

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...

Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...

Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy

WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental...

Il sapere urbano del clasificadores (The knowledge of urban recyclers) Lo Squaderno Urban Knowledges, Explorations in Space and Society

Raccoglitori di Residui; Una panoramica globale sul primo anello del circuito del riciclaggio (Waste pickers: a global view on the first step of the recycling chain)CWG-Reorient- Retos al Sur

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...

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...

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....

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...