Urban Planning and Design

Interview with Caroline Skinner on Street Vendors and Public Space for WIEGO Blog

Caroline Skinner, WIEGO’s Urban Research Director, discusses the launch of our new e-book, Street Vendors and Public Space: Essential...

Podcast Interview: Caroline Skinner on Street Vendors and Public Space

In this podcast interview with Urban Research Director Caroline Skinner, she discusses WIEGO’s new e-book, Street Vendors and Public...

Street Vendors and Public Space: An interactive e-book

Through photography and text, this e-book offers an in-depth look at the important role street vendors play in cities, the challenges they...

Street Vendor Exclusion in “Modern” Market Planning: A Case Study from Kumasi, Ghana

C40-CCAC Waste Systems webinar

• January 16, 2020

Integrating the informal sector in solid waste management plans WIEGO’s Waste Picker Specialist, Dr. Sonia Dias led a webinar that...

Looking Back at 2019: Informal Workers Demanded Change — and Won

In 2019, informal workers made some noise — in their home cities and at the highest global change-making bodies. They took to the streets,...

Five ways to achieve SDGs through grassroots change

The clock is ticking on the road to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets by 2030. Governments everywhere are strategizing...

Enfocandonos en las trabajadoras informales: recicladoras de basura

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How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers

Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...

¿Quién está haciendo realmente más ecológicas las ciudades del futuro?

Junto con el inicio de la COP25, nuestro profundo análisis de dos años de cobertura periodística revela que el ejército ecológico de personas...