Bogotá

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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

Law governing street vendors’ associations in Bogotá, Colombia

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...

#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...

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...

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,...

Digital Communication Workshop for Waste Pickers

• March 15, 2018 - March 16, 2018

Bogota, ColombiaPhoto by: Juan Arredondo/ Getty Images RerportageOn March 15th and 16, 2018, the Digital Communication Workshop for Recyclers...