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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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  • Legal Instruments

    Argentina Law: Ley No. 1166 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

    Updates to the laws governing street vending on public roads in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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  • Presentations

    Challenges of informal employment in Mexico City

    The Round Table “Informal Employment in Mexico City: Challenges and Perspectives 2017” was organized on February 16, 2017 as...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Diseño para aseadores CDMX – Equipo 6

    Designs prepared for Mexico City Shoe Shiner’s Union by a group of design students from Mexico City’s IberoAmerican University.  ...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Decreto Supremo No. 057-2004-PCM

    Reglamento de la Ley General No. 27314 de Residuos Sólidos en Perú

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  • Presentations

    Reporte de Participante Nacional – Colombia

    Taller de Estadísticas del Sector Informal en América Latina (OIT/WIEGO)

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  • Report

    Waste Pickers Without Frontiers

    Report of Conference Proceedings on the First International and Third Latin American Conference of Waste-Pickers Disponible en español aquí.Disponível...

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  • Report

    Cities Alliance Exchange Report

    In August 2016, WIEGO and its local ally, Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (the Bogotá Waste Pickers Association or ARB), hosted a learning...

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  • Report

    Reporte de síntesis y aprendizajes del intercambio de la Alianza de las Ciudades

    En agosto de 2016, WIEGO junto a su aliado local, la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá, organizó un intercambio de aprendizajes en Bogotá,...

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