Region: The Americas

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

This Briefing Note describes the background, objectives, activities and achievements of the Women’s Network as an example of better practice...

Wages and Employment in International Recessions: Recent Latin American Experience

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.”

Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...

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...

Sociological Inquiry

Abstract: Most research on the informal economy concentrates on how the informal economy operates at the international and regional levels...

OHS Initiative for Informal Workers – The Case Study of Brazil

OHS Learning Meeting May 2011

Occupational Health and Safety & Domestic Work

This report contains findings from a four-year research project on occupational health and safety (OHS) and informal workers. The report...

VIDEO: Cronicas de una lucha por la inclusion (Numero 3) – Si es Posible

Este es el tercero producto de las Cronicas de una lucha por la inclusion. from christian Mantilla on Vimeo.

Caracterización Socioeconómica y de Salud de Personas Recicladoras (Forma Completa)

Este documento ofrece una caracterización de las condiciones socioeconómicas y de salud de los recicladores de base en los principales vertederos...