Waste Pickers

Réduction des déchets dans les villes côtières grâce au recyclage inclusif (ReWCC): Étude de base sur les récupératrice.eur.s de la décharge de Mbeubeuss

Le présent rapport s’articule autour du système formel de gestion des déchets, et le diagnostic du système par les acteurs s’appuie sur l’analyse...

Trabajadoras y trabajadores en empleo informal durante la crisis de la COVID-19

En una respuesta inmediata a la COVID-19, WIEGO llevó a cabo una evaluación rápida para entender cómo están afectando la pandemia y las medidas...

Ghanaian government leaves waste pickers to fend for themselves amidst COVID-19 pandemic

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with informal workers worldwide struggling to earn a living, the Ghanaian government began the decommissioning...

COVID-19: What happens to women with low incomes after they lose their jobs?

“It’s very hard to see what the other end of this crisis is going to look like at the grassroots level, at the base of the economic...

Impactos da pandemia de COVID-19 sobre reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

Totally reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important if we take into consideration that waste pickers are an essential part...

Social Protection Briefing Notes

WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO’s database of social...

Marty Chen in IDS Webinar on Informal Workers: What Can Be Done

WIEGO Senior Advisor Marty Chen recently participated in an Institute of Development Studies webinar, “The COVID-19 crisis facing informal...

The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis: A global picture of sudden impact and long-term risk

In an immediate response to COVID-19, WIEGO conducted a rapid assessment to understand how the pandemic and the related public health measures...