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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Urban Informal Workers and the Green Economy – Fact Sheet

    Fact SheetProduced for the Rio+20 international conference in 2012, this fact sheet details how sectors within the informal economy are playing...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    A Beijing Recycler’s Life

    This video follows recyclers in Beijing and shares the work they have been doing for 20 years. The video is in Chinese with English subtitles....

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Não Há Fronteiras para Aqueles que Lutam! Janeiro-fevereiro 2013

      Boletim da Aliança Global de Catadores, janeiro – fevereiro 2013   Available in English here. Disponível em Português aqui. Disponible...

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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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  • Report

    Primer Taller Estratégico Mundial de los Recicladores: Gestión Inclusiva de Residuos Sólidos

    Este informe es resumen del Taller Global Estratégica en Pune, India, en abril de 2012, cuando 80 representantes de recicladores de 34 ciudades...

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  • Report

    Recicladores sin Fronteras

    Reporte del Primer Congreso Mundial y Tercer Congreso Latinoamericano de Recicladores.   Available in English here.   Disponível em Português...

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  • Report

    Report on Waste Pickers at 2013 ILO Conference

    Since 1919, the United Nation’s International Labour Organization (commonly known as the ILO) has hosted its annual International Labour...

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  • Report

    Cities Alliance Exchange Report

    In August 2016, WIEGO and its local ally, Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (the Bogotá Waste Pickers Association or ARB), hosted a learning...

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  • Report

    Reporte de síntesis y aprendizajes del intercambio de la Alianza de las Ciudades

    En agosto de 2016, WIEGO junto a su aliado local, la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá, organizó un intercambio de aprendizajes en Bogotá,...

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  • Project Reports

    Projeto Cuidar – Mapeamento de Riscos de Saúde de Catadores/as

    Este relatório apresenta um resumo dos resultados do Projeto Cuidar , uma iniciativa conjunta do Programa de Proteção Social e Programa de...

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