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....
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The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities
The chapter is on pages 41-47.
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Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil....
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A Experiência de Advocacy no caso dos Trabalhadores Ambulantes em São Paulo
Este sumário, disponível em português, faz uma reflexão sobre o processo jurídico que contestou e acabou por derrubar uma proibição da Câmara...
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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...
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Recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – An Overview of Inclusive Programming
Brazil is one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems, and Belo Horizonte...
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Trajetόrias e Memόrias dos Fόruns Lixo e Cidadania No Brasil: Experimentos Singulares de Justiça Social e Governança Participativa
Summary available in English here.
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Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers
Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...
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Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities
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Statistics on Informal Employment in Brazil
This brief summarizes statistics on poverty and employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Brazil.
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