Colombia

Recycling in Colombia: An Essential Service in the Time of COVID-19

In a webinar from WIEGO’s Workers´ Voices series, Nohra Padilla—leader of the Waste Pickers Association of Bogotá and ANR—shares with other...

El reciclaje en Colombia: Un servicio esencial en tiempos de COVID-19

En un seminario virtual de la serie La voz de las trabajadoras y trabajadores, Nohra Padilla, líder de la Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá...

Le recyclage en Colombie : Un service essentiel en temps de la COVID-19

Dans un webinaire de la série La voix des travailleuse·eur·s, Nohra Padilla, dirigeante de l’Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) et...

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,...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Bogotá, Colombia

Outside the Law: An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá

Abstract: Millions of people worldwide work outside the law as street vendors in order to earn a living.

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia

Certification of Occupational Skills

This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city

Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.