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  • Working Papers

    Informal Sector Integration and High Performance Recycling: Evidence from 20 Cities

    The global informal recycling sector has come into focus as the base of the industrial value chain. With few exceptions, reports and articles...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • Research Reports
  • Research Reports

    The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

    Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

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  • Research Reports

    Report on Scrap Collectors, Scrap Traders, and Recycling Enterprises in Pune

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  • Research Reports

    The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune: KKPKP and SWaCH Members Push for Health Rights

    This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their...

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  • Working Papers

    Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

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  • Journal Articles

    First Take: Waste – Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America)

    Waste—its generation, collection and disposal—is a major global challenge in the 21st century. This is the lead article of the special issue...

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  • Research Reports

    Certification of Occupational Skills

    This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

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  • Research Reports

    Proyecto de reconocimiento de la situación de derechos humanos de los recicladores en latinoamérica: El caso de Ciudad de México, México

    El presente documento describe en qué consiste la labor de los trabajadores voluntarios, la forma en que se realiza, las condiciones de salud...

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