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The book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil (waste pickers and street vendors at Porto Alegre, commercial agents and door-to-door sellers at Itapetininga and Nova Friburgo). Using the ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic...
Reducing, reusing, and recycling municipal waste is one of the easiest and most effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also provides gainful employment to millions of people in the developing world, mostly in the informal sector (“wastepickers” 1). Yet rather than supporting these...
Kagad Kach Kashtakari Panchayat is a trade union. It brings together waste pickers, itinerant waste buyers, waste collectors and other informal recyclers. KKPKP recovers, collects, categorises and sells scrap materials such as corrugated board, paper, plastics, metals and glass for recycling. KKPKP...
From the website: Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization (CSARO) is a Cambodian Non-Governmental organization (NGO) established in February 1997 by a group of development workers committed to improving the environment and living conditions of urban poor in Cambodia. CSARO has been a leader...
Centre for Environmental Justice, in Sri Lanka, promotes environmental justice and equity - engaged in campaigns on various issues such as: environmental justice, anti Incineration, energy and climate change, and sustainable livelihood.
An NGO that helps children living in slums towards a better life through urban community development projects in Mumbai.
Stree Mukti Sanghatana works with waste pickers within its waste management program.
An Indian non-governmental organization, which focuses on sustainable consumption as well as environmental and social equity.
Información sobre la Asociación Nacional de Recicladores de Colombia
The unexpected consequences of shipping computers to the developing world. Photographs by Pieter Hugo View slideshow
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.