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  • Research Reports

    Certification of Occupational Skills: A Decisive Step Towards Professionalizing Waste Picking as an Occupation and Recycling of Solid Waste in Colombia

    This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers

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  • Research Reports

    Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE

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  • Journal Articles

    The Informal Economy, Insecurity and Social Cohesion in Latin America

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  • Briefs

    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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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Trabalho Informal e Direito à Cidade

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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  • Research Reports

    Recomendações para Políticas – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal – Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Realidades e Recomendações

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  • Journal Articles

    The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

    Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

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  • Research Reports

    Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças

    Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças argumenta que benefícios à maternidade e os serviços de cuidado infantil...

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