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  • Domestic workers at the International Labour Conference in Geneva Post
    Global Advocacy and Negotiations December 23, 2019

    Looking Back at 2019: Informal Workers Demanded Change — and Won

    In 2019, informal workers made some noise — in their home cities and at the highest global change-making bodies. They took to the streets,...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

    Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

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  • Research Reports

    The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city

    Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: The Recognition, Promotion and Remuneration of Informal Waste Pickers

    This video, by WIEGO’s Federico Parra, describes the situation of informal waste pickers in Bogota, Colombia.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Nohra Padilla, the Voice of Bogota’s Recycler at COP21

    Nohra Padilla, a Colombian waste picker/recycler advocate and recipient of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Award, is interviewed by Cities...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Colombia Law: Bogotá (Colombia) Res DG-137-07

    Law governing street vendors’ associations in Bogotá, Colombia

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Recicladores de AREMARPO reciben pago por sus servicios en Popayán

    Este video muestra el proceso organizativo que llevó a los recicladores y las recicladoras de la Asociación de Recolectores de Materiales...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    #100ExpertosDicen Recicladores urbanos en Colombia – Federico

    Coordinador regional del programa de recicladores para América Latina de la ONG Wiego y experto en Antropología urbana, análisis de políticas...

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  • Report

    Cities Alliance Exchange Report

    In August 2016, WIEGO and its local ally, Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (the Bogotá Waste Pickers Association or ARB), hosted a learning...

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  • Report

    Reporte de síntesis y aprendizajes del intercambio de la Alianza de las Ciudades

    En agosto de 2016, WIEGO junto a su aliado local, la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá, organizó un intercambio de aprendizajes en Bogotá,...

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