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  • Stories/Case Studies

    “Women are always the strongest”

    Paola Caviedes Martinez is a single mom concerned with children’s rights, raising children without male role models and the psychological...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Reglamento de la Ley No. 29419

    Ley que regula las actividades de los recicladores D.S. 005-2010 MINAM; aspectos técnicos del reciclaje de los residuos sólidos.

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Struggles and Victories: Waste Pickers on the Frontline. February-May 2015

    Global Alliance of Waste Pickers Newsletter, February-May 2015 Read the newsletter in English.Leer el boletín en español. Leia o boletim...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Claudia from Recicla Ourinhos (São Paulo), Gender and Waste

    Claudia from Recicla Ourinhos (São Paulo) cooperative talks about her participation at the workshop on women waste pickers, some of the topics...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Nohra Padilla (ARB) en la Embajada de Brasil en Paris. 9 dic. 2015. París

    Intervención de Nohra Padilla, Directora de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB), en un panel organizado por la Embajada de Brasil...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    No hay fronteras para los que luchan, junio – octubre 2015

    Boletín de la Alianza Global de Recicladores, junio – octobre 2015   Read the newsletter in English.   Leer el boletín en español.   Leia...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Ferramenta No 3: Árvore da Autonomia

    Da Teoria à Ação: Gênero e Reciclagem de Resíduos Um Kit de Ferramentas para Professores, Pesquisadores e Profissionais

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  • Presentations

    Structural Integration of the Informal Sector in the Municipal Solid Waste Management in Tunisia – Expert Meeting

    A summary of this meeting is available and more information about the project is available on the Sweep-Net website.

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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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