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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Poliana Inacio do MNCR Brazil fala sobre o Madalena do MNCR fala sobre o empoderamento das mulheres

    Poliana Inacio, um líder no Movimento Nacional de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis (MNCR) do Brasil fala sobre o empoderamento das mulheres.   Saiba...

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  • Project Reports

    Technology and the Future of Work: Experiences of informal waste workers and street vendors in Dhaka, Lima, and Nairobi

    “Through  a  year-long  project  supported  by  the  Rockefeller  Foundation, Practical  Action  and  WIEGO  (Women  in  Informal ...

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  • Presentations

    Formalising the Informal: Door to Door Collection at Rampir no Tekro, Vadaj, Ahmedabad

    “SEWA has organized around 49,240 waste pickers and cleaners in Ahmedabad. SEWA is constantly trying modes to inclusively link our...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Just Recycling: The Social, Economic and Environmental Benefits of Working with Waste Pickers (Zulu)

    VIDEO: This 7-minute animated film shows how cities on different continents have taken diverse approaches to integrating waste pickers in...

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Cuidar Project: Waste Pickers’ Health Risk Mapping

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Slides on Waste Pickers

    The unexpected consequences of shipping computers to the developing world. Photographs by Pieter HugoView slideshow

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  • Audiovisual Materials
  • Toolkits and Guides

    Behance: Hard Life (Paper Collectors)

    The aim of this project is to show the lives and work of a community often forgotten by Brazilian society, yet who are vitally important...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Lettre d’Information OBA de WIEGO avril 2012

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Organiser les récupérateurs à Tshwane, Afrique du Sud: Leçons apprises des approches descendante et ascendante

    Sommaire de rapport 5 de regroupement de WIEGO

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