Theme: Women's Leadership

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)...

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...