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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Flash Mob Reciclagem Popular – Minas Gerais

    Mais de 300 pessoas, entre catadores de materiais recicláveis e apoiadores da causa, participaram do Flah Mob Reciclagem Popular que aconteceu...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Federico Parra (Colombia) – Recognition of the ‘Recicladores’ as Public Managers of Waste in Colombia

    The Municipal Services Project conference held in April 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa brought together researchers, activists, labour,...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Pas de frontières pour ceux qui luttent! mai-juillet 2014

    Bulletin de l’Alliance Mondiale des Récupérateurs, Mai-Juillet 2014Lire le bulletin en français. Read the newsletter in English.Leer...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Pas de frontières pour ceux qui luttent. Mars et avril 2013.

    Bulletin de l’Alliance Mondiale des Récupérateurs, mars et avril 2013  

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Mulheres Catadoras

    Presentation (Portuguese) on the Waste and Gender Programme developed by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO),...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Waste pickers of Brazil unite

    In Ourinhos, Brazil, waste pickers got organised, got out of the informal economy and, in the process, managed to secure a better standard...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Inclusive recycling systems – video chronicles from Buenos Aires: Pablo Schamber

    This is one in a series of videos produced by Sonia Dias, WIEGO’s Waste Picker Sector Specialist.   In Spanish with English subtitles. ...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    WIEGO MBO Newsletter August 2015

    WIEGO’s August 2015 Newsletter for Membership-Based Organizations of Informal Workers  

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    A jornada de Varshaben: de vendedora de verduras à Vídeo SEWA

    Mulheres jovens possuem poucas oportunidades de romper com os papéis que tradicionalmente se espera que elas assumam em suas famílias e como...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Gender and Waste Recycling Toolkit – Resources

    This is Book 3 in a series, “From Theory to Action: Gender and Waste Recycling: A Toolkit for Teachers, Researchers and Practitioners.”  ...

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