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COVID-19 Crisis Study November 11, 2021The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods
The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...
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Advocacy Materials
Social Protection for Informal Workers: Trends and Changes – Social Protection Briefing Note No. 2
Many different organizations and specialists talk about universal social protection. But their vision of how to achieve it is very different....
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Technical Briefs
Formalization as Public Service Providers: Achievements and Obstacles for Colombia’s Waste Pickers
This technical brief provides an analysis of the process that led to the recognition and remuneration of Colombia’s waste picker sector...
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Home as Workplace
For an estimated 260 million home-based workers around the world, their home doubles as their workplace. Homes are also used as work or storage...
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Research Reports
Family-Friendly Policies for Workers in the Informal Economy
This policy brief is an outcome of a collaboration between WIEGO, UNICEF and the ILO in advocating for family-friendly policies to protect...
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Fact Sheets/Infographics
Waste Warriors of Delhi: Locating waste picker communities across the city
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Waste Pickers and Human Rights
ILO estimates indicate that close to 20 million people worldwide earn their living from recycling waste. Many work as waste pickers who gather...
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Resource Documents
O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores e vendedores ambulantes na redução da poluição do litoral durante o carnaval de Salvador da Bahia, Brasil
English Thomas, Brittany A., Sonia M. Dias, Cynthia Deng e Mariana Pereira Guimarães. 2021. O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores...
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Research Reports
La crisis de la COVID-19 y la economía informal: Resumen ejecutivo
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Research Reports
La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle : Résumé
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