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Gender and Waste Project March 08, 2019How to Hit Women’s Economic Empowerment Targets: First ensure women can recognize their own dignity and self worth
Valdete Roza is a Brazilian waste picker and leader in her cooperative who is pioneering gender discussions with her colleagues across her...
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Building Collective Power February 28, 2019New Project Explores How Waste Pickers Can Help Solve the Ocean Plastics Waste Crisis
A Q&A with Taylor Cass Talbott It’s hard to miss the shocking images of heaping plastic floating in the middle of the world’s oceans...
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Livelihoods February 20, 2019In India, Pune’s Poorest Operate One of the World’s Most Cost-effective Waste Management Models
A Q&A with Lakshmi Narayan As cities across the globe struggle to find efficient, cost-effective ways to manage waste, the women waste...
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Exposure Dialogues February 05, 2019Eye Witness: WIEGO’s Brazilian Waste Expert Dispatches from India
WIEGO’s Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP) on Law and Informality brought global experts to Ahmedabad, India, to stay two nights in the homes...
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Livelihoods December 11, 2018Q&A: New Project Highlights Health Risks Faced by Waste Pickers
Waste pickers may keep cities clean, but they face hazardous conditions on the job. Their health and wellbeing is at risk on a daily basis....
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Livelihoods October 01, 2018Senegal’s Dump Upgrading Doesn’t Have to Displace Waste Pickers
The theme of World Habitat Day 2018 is municipal solid waste management and creating “waste wise cities.” In this article, WIEGO’s Waste...
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Livelihoods August 27, 2018Can Waste Pickers Help Solve Delhi’s Towering Trash Problem?
With Avi Singh Majithia Delhi’s Qutub Minar, the tallest minaret in the world, rises high above many of the capital city’s landmarks, but...
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Livelihoods August 21, 2018Waste has Worth — and So Do the Women Working to Collect It
A step-by-step guide to building empowerment among women waste pickers By Sonia Dias and Ana Carolina Ogando Women across the globe share...
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Climate Change and Just Transition July 07, 2018Planeta Verde: cooperativa colombiana revoluciona la recolección de residuos
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Climate Change and Just Transition July 06, 2018Planeta Verde: The Colombian Cooperative Revolutionizing Waste Picking
In celebration of International Cooperatives Day, we speak with Martha Elena Iglesias, a waste picker and the leader of Planeta Verde, a...
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