All posts in Waste Pickers
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Presentations
Wastepickers and the right to the city: Forging a new conceptualization of “the public” in waste management
Presentation during Session 6 of the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference “Waste Pickers: Conceptualization of ‘The Public’...
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Audiovisual Materials
Feeding Families: Meet Grace from Ghana
Open dumps pose major environmental and health concerns. They also provide incomes for million of people worldwide. Waste picker Grace Avemegah...
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Fact Sheets/Infographics
Informal Workers in Focus Fact Sheet Collection
Contains fact sheets on Street Vendors, Waste Collectors, and Home-based Workers (also available separately)
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Audiovisual Materials
SWaCH
Solid Waste Collection and Handling or, officially, the SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit, Pune. SWaCH Coop is India’s first wholly-owned...
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Toolkits and Guides
Museo del Riciclo
Link do museu italiano de reciclagem – Link to the Italian museum of recycling
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WIEGO Network Newsletters
WIEGO MBO Newsletter July 2011
July 2011
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Stories/Case Studies
Inclusive Cities Project Helping Urban Workers Make Gains
The Inclusive Cities project is improving the lives of the urban working poor.
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Stories/Case Studies
Wanted: Space in the City
A group of impoverished waste pickers in Munger, Bihar, India organized to protest the demolition of their traditional homes to make way...
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Presentations
City Strategies and Urban Planning from Different Perspectives – An Urban Planner, Homeworkers, Waste Pickers and Migrant Workers
Presentation at WIEGO Colloquium, ‘World Class Cities’ and the Urban Informal Economy: Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor
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Fact Sheets/Infographics
No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers – Fact Sheet
Report available in English here.Informe disponible en español aquí.Fact Sheet available in English here.Ficha Técnica disponible en español...
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