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  • Research Reports

    Valuing Informal Integration: Inclusive Recycling in North Africa and the Middle East

    Report highlighting cases from North Africa and the Middle East of inclusive waste management systems. Lessons for improved practice in waste...

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  • Journal Articles

    Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dumpEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space

    Melanie Samson, former coordinator of WIEGO’s work with waste pickers in Africa,  recently published an article entitled “Accumulation...

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  • Research Reports

    Cooperation among workers in the informal economy: A focus on home-based workers and waste pickers

    This joint report by the International Labour Organization and WIEGO aims to deepen understanding on the nature and role of cooperatives...

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  • Research Reports

    Mapping of Waste Pickers and Organizations Supporting Waste Pickers in Kenya

    Report commissioned by WIEGO

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  • Research Reports

    Recovering resources, creating opportunities: Integrating the informal sector into solid waste management

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  • WIEGO Publication Series

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

    This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Mapping of the Policy Context and Catadores Organizations in Maputo, Mozambique

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

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  • Research Reports

    No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

    The research shows that informal enterprises and informal wage workers are affected in many of the same ways as formal firms and formal wage...

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  • Technical Briefs

    Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider

    This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based...

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  • Research Reports

    City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya

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