Region: Colombia

The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities

The chapter is on pages 41-47.

The Poor Shall Not Remain Small: Broadening Access of the Organized Poor to the Market by Means of Strengthening NPOs Through Constitutional Justice (The Case of the ARB-Colombia)

Paper presented at Global Network of Government Innovators, Ash Institute at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November...

WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia

Review of the Mixed Survey in the Colombian Informal Sector

Prepared for ILO-Latin America/WIEGO Latin America Regional Workshop on Statistics on the Informal Economy, Santiago, Chile

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Bogotá, Colombia

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia

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...

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.”

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...

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...