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  • Brazilian catadora with recyclables Statistical Briefs

    Catadores de materiais recicláveis no Brasil: um perfil estatístico

    O Brasil é líder no reconhecimento de seus mais de 281.000 catadores informais em cadeias de reciclagem e nas estatísticas oficiais do...

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  • Brazilian catadora with recyclables Statistical Briefs

    Waste Pickers in Brazil: A Statistical Profile

    Brazil is a leader in recognizing its more than 281,000 informal waste pickers in recycling chains and the country’s official statistics....

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Cartilha de precificação para o trabalho dos catadores e das catadoras

    Pagamento por serviços na catação Esta cartilha apresenta orientações de como precificar o trabalho dos catadores seja das organizações coletivas...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Oi! Foi bom te ver lá na formação. Na sua turma também tinha catadores e catadoras do Brasil todo e que trabalhavam na rua ou galpão?

    Cartão-Memória Cata Saúde: Este cartão-memória reconta como foi o projeto de capacitação online Cata Saúde Viraliza a partir de um diálogo...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis and Canners in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

    Canners represent many underserved populations in New York City, including racially or ethnically marginalized groups, undocumented immigrants,...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Inclusive Recycling

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  • Woman sawing from home (Tailoring) during COVIS-19 pandemic Policy/Position Documents

    Position Paper on Inequalities and the World of Work, prepared for the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference

    Despite a pre-pandemic modest decrease in the number of people living in extreme poverty, the number of extremely poor increased by about...

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  • Waste Picker of Mushroomville with his collected materials News
    Building Collective Power November 12, 2021

    Waste pickers in Tshwane (Pretoria) face displacement and loss of livelihoods as a result of evictions

    WIEGO and its affiliates stand in solidarity with the 180 waste pickers in Mushroomville who were given notice of eviction on 15th November...

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  • Bigué Cissé, a waste picker at the Mbeubeuss dumpsite near Dakar, Senegal, has been collecting plastic recyclables for 16 years to support her family of eight, including three children. Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study November 11, 2021

    The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods

    The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Social Protection for Informal Workers: Trends and Changes – Social Protection Briefing Note No. 2

    Many different organizations and specialists talk about universal social protection. But their vision of how to achieve it is very different....

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