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  • Bigué Cissé, a waste picker at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite near Dakar, Senegal, has been collecting plastic recyclables for 16 years to support her family of eight, including three children. Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study

    The 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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  • Meenaben at work in her home Project

    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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  • Family-Friendly Policies for Workers - joint WIEGO/ILO/UNICEF paper Global 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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  • Waste pickers map thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Waste Warriors of Delhi: Locating waste picker communities across the city

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  • Somos Recicladores Imágen Héroe Project

    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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  • Global Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Executive Summary

    The COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-coordinated1 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Protection sociale des travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel : Tendances et changements

    Le système d’enregistrement est un outil essentiel pour étendre la protection sociale aux travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel.  Dans cette note...

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