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Research Reports
Certification of Occupational Skills
This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...
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Research Reports
Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia
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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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The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers
These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...
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Books & Book Chapters
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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Research Reports
Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia
Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”
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Working Papers
Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management
The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...
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Research Reports
Informalidad y Urbanismo Social en Medellín
La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación...
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Research Reports
Estudio en seguridad industrial y salud ocupacional para el caso del trabajo del reciclador en la calle
La producción de desechos y basuras es el resultado ignorado de un modelo de desarrollo capitalista, altamente extractivista para los países...
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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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