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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Cooperativa Recicla Ourinhos

    Recicla Ourinhos é uma cooperativa onde um número 80 de membros é contratado pelo município para fornecer serviços de coleta, avaliação,...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Acceptance Speech by Nohra Padilla, 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize Ceremony

    Acceptance speech by Nohra Padilla, who won the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for organizing Bogota’s marginalized waste pickers...

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  • External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    A gestão antiperspirante: rumo à pobreza inodora, incolor e insípida

    A Gestão Antiperspirante: Rumo à pobreza inodora, incolor e insípida Para Luciana Itikawa   Antiperspirante é a substância que inibe a saída...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    El Trabajo de Ciudades Focales de WIEGO en Lima

    La implementación de varias iniciativas de WIEGO en dos ciudades – Lima, capital de Perú, en América del Sur, y Accra, capital de Ghana,...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Hacia el cumplimiento del Auto 275 de 2011

    Hacia el cumplimiento del Auto 275 de 2011

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  • External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    Inclusive Cities – Shrinking Inequalities in Latin America — A Response to the Economist’s “Securing Livelihoods” Edition

    A blog post by WIEGO’s Waste Sector Specialist, Sonia Dias.

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  • Legal Instruments

    Resumen Normativo sobre Recicladores en Peru

    Resumen relacionado al marco normativo de los recicladores en Peru; en referencia a la Ley 29419

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  • External Blog Posts/Op Eds

    International Development Innovation Network

    This blog post by Laura Lehman shares information on “Problem-Solving, Partnership & Prototypes: A Reflection on IDDS Zero Waste...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    World Cup for All: A Portrait of Street Vendors’ Organizations in the World Cup Host Cities in Brazil

    This report is an English summary of a Portuguese research study StreetNet International commissioned on organizations of informal traders...

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  • Project Reports

    Technology and the Future of Work: Experiences of informal waste workers and street vendors in Dhaka, Lima, and Nairobi

    “Through  a  year-long  project  supported  by  the  Rockefeller  Foundation, Practical  Action  and  WIEGO  (Women  in  Informal ...

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