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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. Page
  • On 4 May 2023 in Dakar, Bokk Diom waste pickers demonstrated against a government measure that will limit their access to Mbeubeuss dumpsite Post

    Bokk Diom Mobilizes Against Partial Closure of Mbeubeuss Dumpsite in Dakar

    The Association of Waste Pickers Bokk Diom demands that Senegal’s government keeps its promises of inclusion as the closure of West Africa’s...

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  • GSEF Dakar May 01 2023

    WIEGO in the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF)

    • May 1, 2023 - May 6, 2023
    • Dakar, Sénégal

    Global Position Paper from Organizations of Workers in the Informal Economy ILC 110th Session – General discussion on Social and Solidarity...

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  • Malika, one of Dakar’s 19 communes d’arrondissement (administrative divisions), on 10 December 2021. Post

    Waste Pickers Organize Into a Cooperative: Will Senegal Include Them in its Waste Management Plan?

    Waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite have set up their own cooperative in an effort to be integrated into the new waste management model...

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  • Kayayei carry goods on their heads in Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana Post
    Child Care March 04, 2022

    International Women’s Day 2022

    For International Women’s Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic...

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  • Coura Ndiaye, a leader of Bokk Diom, washing bottles at the Mbeubeuss dump in Dakar, Senegal in January 2017 Worker Story

    Coura Ndiaye – a waste picker leader in Dakar, Senegal

    Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker –...

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  • Bigué Cissé, a waste picker at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite near Dakar, Senegal, has been collecting plastic recyclables for 16 years to support her family of eight, including three children. Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study November 05, 2021

    The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods

    The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...

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    La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle : récupératrice·eur·s de déchets en emploi informel à Dakar

    “La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle, une étude longitudinale menée dans 12 villes, sous la conduite de WIEGO, se propose...

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  • Christina Ohenewaa, a street vendor in Accra, Ghana Post
    Building Collective Power December 05, 2020

    Les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel prévoient un long chemin vers la reprise – à moins que les gouvernements passent à l’action –

    Les informations recueillies lors du premier cycle de l’étude sur la crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle menée par WIEGO dans 12...

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