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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Gender and Waste Recycling Toolkit: Exercise 1 – Icebreaker

    Exercise 1: IcebreakerThis workshop exercise was pulled from the Gender and Waste Toolkit, a publication providing a comprehensive toolkit...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Ejercicio 5: Sesión de cierre: evaluación del taller

    Género y reciclaje: De la teoría a la acción Un manual para profesores, investigadores y profesionales 

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    GAIA Spring 2016 Newsletter

    Waste picker news from around the world in GAIA’s spring 2016 newsletter. Find additional information about GAIA here.

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Indira Explains the Work of Hasiru Dala, a Waste Picker Organization

    Indira, a waste picker with Hasiru Dala in Bangalore, India explains the contribution of waste pickers at the Expert Group Meeting on the...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    VIDEO: Improving Wastepickers’ Lives in Bengaluru – Hasiru Dala Innovations

    Bangalore was once known as a green city, but of recent times it has become known as a garbage city. Enter, Hasiru Dala Innovations, which...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    GAIA February 2017 Newsletter

    Waste picker news from around the world in GAIA’s February 2017 newsletter.Find additional information about GAIA here.

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    GAIA June 2017 Newsletter

    Waste picker news from around the world in GAIA’s June 2017 newsletter.Find additional information about GAIA here.

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  • Advocacy Materials

    The political work of ‘waste picker integration’

    Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

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  • Project Reports

    WIEGO Photo News Report – Ergonomics Workshop with Waste Pickers from Redesol, Cataunidos and Catavales

    An ergonomics workshop was held with 39 waste pickers from 17 Brazilian cooperatives.This workshop was led by certified physical therapist,...

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  • Report

    First Global Strategic Workshop of Waste Pickers: Inclusive Solid Waste Management

    This summary report details the Global Strategic Workshop in Pune, India in April, 2012, when 80 waste picker representatives from 34 cities...

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