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Livelihoods September 18, 2019Five Case Studies that Illustrate Steps Toward an Inclusive City
Creating “inclusive cities” is a hot topic right now. Habitat III has just wound up in Quito, Ecuador – the UN’s urban conference that brought...
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Livelihoods September 18, 2019Inclusive Cities for Informal Workers
In most developing countries, well over half the urban workforce is informal. Yet informal workers – and their livelihoods –...
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Livelihoods September 18, 2019A New Research Study Gives Voice to Waste Pickers
The fact that waste pickers are capable of voicing their concerns, responding to challenges, and contributing to cities and to the urban...
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Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Bogotá, Colombia
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Outside the Law: An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá
Abstract: Millions of people worldwide work outside the law as street vendors in order to earn a living.
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Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia
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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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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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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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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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