Asia & the Pacific

Networking Grassroots Efforts to Improve Safety and Health in Informal Economy Workplaces in AsiaIndustrial Health

Give Back Our Waste

Summary from Chintan: Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally...

Urban Poor Education: Policy and Practices in Nepal

A Review of Education Policy and Practices of Urban Poor Children Including Home Based Workers’ Children, Nepal Case Study

Maid to Order in Hong Kong: An Ethnography of Filipina Workers

Women’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development Review

The increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility...

Social Protection for Home-Based Women Workers in South Asia: Learning from Action and Research

This action research project has been carried out by Home Net South Asia with research inputs from the Institute of Social Studies Trust. ...

Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

Changing Structure of Governance in Non-Metropolitan Cities: A Study in Andhra Pradesh

Globalisation has brought forward new modes of governance and technological options to urban local bodies in India in the last two decades....

Financial Accessibility of the Street Vendors in India: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion

From the Executive Summary: “Street vendors are one of the most marginalised, poor as well as vulnerable sectors of the urban informal...

New Practices of Waste Management – Case of Mumbai

Working Paper No. 35 in the SP Working Paper Series of School of Planning of CEPT University