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  • Research Reports

    Organizando nas Ruas: Um estudo dos Catadores de recicláveis nas ruas da Cidade do Cabo

    Um resumo baseado no relatório de Koni Benson e Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, (ILRIG) – Grupo Internacional de Informação e Pesquisa de Trabalho

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil

    The book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil (waste pickers and street vendors at Porto...

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  • Journal Articles

    Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground

    While waste pickers provide vital services to their communities, their municipalities and the environment – they generally face very difficult...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Integração de Trabalhadores Informais na Coleta Seletiva de Recicláveis: o Caso de Belo Horizonte, Brasil

    Esta nota informativa traz uma análise mais detalhada sobre a gênese e os elementos chaves da política pública voltada para a integração...

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  • Research Reports

    Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce

    This report proposes a a number of policies to help address the existing vulnerabilities of workers in the informal economy and minimize...

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  • Technical Briefs

    Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider

    This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

    Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.

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  • Research Reports

    Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

    This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.

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  • Working Papers

    Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

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  • Journal Articles

    First Take: Waste – Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America)

    Waste—its generation, collection and disposal—is a major global challenge in the 21st century. This is the lead article of the special issue...

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