African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could overcome some of the challenges they are facing and improve their livelihoods.
In Mexico City, a controversy is brewing over a proposed billion-dollar waster incinerator that threatens the livelihoods of the city’s estimated 10,000-plus volunteer waste pickers. On this International Waste Pickers’ Day, we speak with WIEGO’s Focal City Coordinator in Mexico City, Tania Espinosa, about the proposal and its potential impact on both informal waste pickers as well as the environment.
En la Ciudad de México, la polémica continúa creciendo en torno a la construcción de una incineradora de residuos que supera los 100 mil millones de pesos y pone en riesgo el sustento de vida de más de 10 mil trabajadores voluntarios del servicio de limpia de la Ciudad de México. Para el Día Internacional de los Recicladores, conversamos con la Coordinadora del programa Ciudades Focales de WIEGO en la Ciudad de México, Tania Espinosa, sobre el proyecto y sus posibles efectos, tanto en el medio de sustento de los recicladores informales, como en el medio ambiente.
Municipalities across Peru have been employing a strategy to improve conditions for street vendors: support their movement from sellers on the sidewalks to more formal roofed markets. The transition is one that first began in Lima in the 1980s and, due to its perceived success, has been widely adopted. However, WIEGO Statistical Brief N° 16 found that this move on its own is not a solution.
It is morning rush hour in Bangkok and moto-taxi drivers ferry hurried commuters through stalled traffic. In Mexico City, shoe shiners line up outside office buildings, offering their services to professionals on their way to work. In Lima, parents walking their children to school stop to purchase a newspaper from a local vendor.
