Building Collective Power

Executive Summary: Selective Waste Management and Waste Pickers’ Organizations: Indicators and Sustainability Indices

This is a 5-page executive summary of a 59-page research guide (in Portuguese), Gestão da coleta seletiva e de organizações de catadores:...

VIDEO: Kayayei March – Accra, December 2016

This is a video of an appreciation march by Kayayei’s on the promise that was made to them by the NPP (New Patriotic Party) to abolish...

Recognizing Waste Pickers

In many developing countries, high recycling rates (50-80%) can be credited to the informal sector. Johnston Doe explains how waste pickers...

Informal Workers in Focus: Domestic Workers

This fact sheet offers information on the forces that cause women to become domestic workers, how many there are globally, their wages and the...

Resolucao dos Problemas Cotidianos dos Trabalhadores Informais (ICC3)

Let’s Organize! A SYNDICOOP Handbook for Trade Unions and Cooperatives about Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy

Geneva: ILO.

Stree Mukti Sanghatana

Stree Mukti Sanghatana works with waste pickers within its waste management program.

Коллективные действия в интересах неформальных работников (Russian)

Создание объединений в неформальном секторе: пособие для организаторов, Выпуск 6

WIEGO: Cooperatives for Informal Workers’ Rights and Sustainable Livelihoods!

Around the world, informal workers are forming cooperatives, pooling their energy, ideas and resources to gain mutual economic, political...

Récupération en Afrique, Volume 2.1

  Available in English here.