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Integrating Waste Pickers into Municipal Solid Waste Management in Pune, India No person should have to be immersed in solid waste for their livelihood, yet every day hundreds of thousands of informal waste pickers in... Read More
Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest... Read More
The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Assessing Access by Informal Workers In 2003 the Ghanaian government introduced, a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) – an, innovative and large scale attempt to extend,... Read More
Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy... Read More
Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women.... Read More
Social Policy and Employment: Rebuilding the Connections This brief points to the inappropriate decoupling of social policy from employment objectives and outlines their intrinsic links. It argues... Read More
Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and... Read More
Participatory Policy Making: Lessons from Thailand’s Universal Coverage Scheme This policy brief draws out lessons from the Thai health reform process which are relevant to both policy makers and organizations of informal... Read More
The Municipal Waste and Citizenship Forum: A Platform for Social Inclusion and Participation A critical source of success of the Belo Horizonte model of including waste pickers into urban plans has been the high level of organization... Read More
