Occupational Group: Waste Pickers

Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...

A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics

This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers,...

Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India

¿Qué derechos laborales tienen los trabajadores informales del servicio de limpia en la ciudad de México?: el caso de los trabajadores voluntarios y pepenadoresMétodhos

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo demostrar que el servicio de limpia es un servicio público cuya realización corresponde al Gobierno...

Slim pickin’s: Supporting waste pickers in the ecological modernization of urban waste management systems

Abstract: Informal sector scavengers or waste pickers have been unrecognized stakeholders on the fringes of the urban waste landscape since...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

The Poor Shall Not Remain Small: Broadening Access of the Organized Poor to the Market by Means of Strengthening NPOs Through Constitutional Justice (The Case of the ARB-Colombia)

Paper presented at Global Network of Government Innovators, Ash Institute at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November...

Gestão Pública Sustentável de Resíduos Sólidos – Uso de Bases de Dados Oficiais e de indicadores de sustentabilidade

The Municipal Waste and Citizenship Forum: A Platform for Social Inclusion and Participation

A critical source of success of the Belo Horizonte model of including waste pickers into urban plans has been the high level of organization...