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Stories / Case StudiesTecendo Redes de Conhecimento, Ação e Afeto
Essa publicação digital toma como ponto de partida a história de impacto escrita por Rhonda Douglas, da WIEGO, com base nas informações coletadas...
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PostBuilding Collective Power May 19, 2022Waste Pickers Organize Into a Cooperative: Will Senegal Include Them in its Waste Management Plan?
Waste pickers at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite have set up their own cooperative in an effort to be integrated into the new waste management model...
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PostCOVID-19 Crisis Study April 14, 2022The Pandemic is Not Over
The rhetoric of an easing COVID-19 pandemic obscures the array of occupational health and safety risks that the world’s informal workers...
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ReportCOVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Bangkok, Thailand: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery
This report presents the Bangkok findings from Round 2 of the WIEGO-led COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy study that was conducted...
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Law & Informality InsightsSocial Movement Lawyering: A Reflection on the Nature of Law and Lawyering Through the Lens of Informal Workers
Applying insights from critical legal studies, this issue of Law and Informality Insights explores how informal workers use the law to resolve...
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Resource DocumentsSocial Protection for Self-Employed Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A rights-based assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis
Informal workers make up a large proportion of the “missing middle” in social protection – those who are not considered vulnerable enough...
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ReportCooperativas de catadores – colchão amortecedor contra os piores impactos da pandemia
• As cooperativas de catadores funcionaram como um colchão amortecedor para os catadores do Brasil (termo pelo qual são conhecidos no país)...
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ReportImpactos da pandemia de Covid-19 sobre a Reciclagem Inclusiva nas Cooperativas de Catadores no Brasil: Análise Comparativa 2020 – 2021
Principais Achados: As cooperativas foram rápidas na implementação dos protocolos COVID-19 nos seus galpões, conseguindo assim maior credibilidade...
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Worker StoryCoura Ndiaye – a waste picker leader in Dakar, Senegal
Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker –...
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ReportCooperatives Cushion Catadores Against Worst of Pandemic
Key Points Waste-picker cooperatives cushioned Brazil’s waste pickers (known locally as catadores) against the worst economic impacts of...
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