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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Feeding Families: Meet Grace from Ghana

    Open dumps pose major environmental and health concerns. They also provide incomes for million of people worldwide. Waste picker Grace Avemegah...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Resolution on Women Workers in the Informal Economy

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    SWaCH

    Solid Waste Collection and Handling or, officially, the SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit, Pune. SWaCH Coop is India’s first wholly-owned...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Museo del Riciclo

    Link do museu italiano de reciclagem – Link to the Italian museum of recycling

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    WIEGO MBO Newsletter July 2011

    July 2011

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Inclusive Cities Project Helping Urban Workers Make Gains

    The Inclusive Cities project is improving the lives of the urban working poor.

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Wanted: Space in the City

    A group of impoverished waste pickers in Munger, Bihar, India organized to protest the demolition of their traditional homes to make way...

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  • Presentations

    City Strategies and Urban Planning from Different Perspectives – An Urban Planner, Homeworkers, Waste Pickers and Migrant Workers

    Presentation at WIEGO Colloquium, ‘World Class Cities’ and the Urban Informal Economy: Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers – Fact Sheet

    Report available in English here.Informe disponible en español aquí.Fact Sheet available in English here.Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Récupération en Afrique, Volume 2.1

      Available in English here.

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