India

VIDEO: Waste Management in India – Hasiru Dala Innovaotions

Up to 76% of India’s household waste goes to landfills, open dumps and water bodies, even though 85% of it is recyclable! In April 2016,...

Formalising the Informal: Door to Door Collection at Rampir no Tekro, Vadaj, Ahmedabad

“SEWA has organized around 49,240 waste pickers and cleaners in Ahmedabad. SEWA is constantly trying modes to inclusively link our...

Union Territory of Lakadshweep’ Street Vendors Rules, 2015

This document contains rules that govern street vending in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep’, that are based on the Protection of...

Episode 12

This is the twelfth episode in a radio series on informal workers in Delhi, produced by WIEGO and originally aired on FM Rainbow.

Chintan: Counterbalance Video

Where waste picker Mohammad Nazir from Delhi explains how they earn less (because of less access to waste due to the new private company...

Poverty and Inequality and Relationship to Informality in India

Delhi workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

The Parivartan Slum Upgradation Programme

Presentation at WIEGO Colloquium, ‘World Class Cities’ and the Urban Informal Economy: Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor

Women, Work and Poverty conference report

Short report on the policy conference on homebased workers in South Asia co-organized by SEWA and UNIFEM entitled “Women, Work and...

IEMS: Recherche-Action Porteuse et Résultats Concrets

SLIDESHOW with AUDIO: Chindhiwalli Women

This talking album, Chindhiwalli Women: A community of migrant women barters old clothes for utensils in Mumbai, was created by Dipti Bapat, ...