Event Type: Public presentation/seminar

Building Collective Power for Social Justice: Workers Organizing in the Informal & Popular Economy

• February 2, 2026

Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC): Informal Workers & COVID-19: Impact and Vision for the Future

• July 14, 2020
• Online

Sixty-one per cent of all workers –2 billion people– are informally employed.  Many of those who work informally, live in slums and their...

COVID-19, Plastic Pollution and the Green Recovery

• June 10, 2020
• Online

The COVID-19 pandemic has created devastating setbacks for the environmental sector, including the movement to transition away from single-use...

World Bank-WIEGO Roundtable

• May 19, 2020
• Online

On May 19th, 2020, WIEGO Urban Policy specialists joined representatives from the World Bank for an exchange about informal workers in cities...

#WasteChat: A Twitter Chat about Waste Pickers

• March 4, 2020
• @WBG_Cities and @WIEGOGLOBAL
  Online on Twitter.com

On March 4 at 9am ET/North America), 11am Brazil and 5pm Nairobi, #WasteChat – a Twitter chat in English and Spanish on waste picker...

Global Social Movements of the Urban Poor: Mobilizing for Inclusive Cities

• September 19, 2019 - 12:00pm
• Cambridge, USA

Marty Chen, WIEGO Senior Advisor, spoke to 30 Spanish civil society leaders as part of a Global Civil Society Seminar organized by the Harvard...

International Day of Cooperatives: Innovative approaches to implementing the 2030 Agenda

• July 11, 2016
• UN Headquarters
  New York, US

Inclusive Cities for the Urban Working Poor – Lessons from Africa

• February 24, 2016
• Westminster, London

Hosted by the Africa Research Institute (ARI), this event showcased WIEGO’s research and analysis with a particular focus on Africa.Marty...