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  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive: Improving the Physical Environment (1)

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

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  • Research Reports

    Making home-based work environments safer, healthier and productive, experiences and insights from MHT’s work: Introduction and Documentation Framework

    This brief is a part of WIEGO’s documentation of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust’s (MHT) work to capture insights on their work that has...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Winning a Right to the Sidewalks: Street Vendors in New York

    This Brief seeks to identify and examine certain factors that led to the proposal to reform New York’s street vending legislation that...

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  • Savda Ghevra timeline thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Building Savda Ghevra: A story of resettlement in Delhi

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  • Waste pickers map thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Waste Warriors of Delhi: Locating waste picker communities across the city

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  • Home as place of work map thumbnail Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Home as place of work: Locating the home-based workers of Delhi

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  • Resource Documents

    O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores e vendedores ambulantes na redução da poluição do litoral durante o carnaval de Salvador da Bahia, Brasil

    English Thomas, Brittany A., Sonia M. Dias, Cynthia Deng e Mariana Pereira Guimarães. 2021. O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores...

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  • Research Reports

    COVID-19 Crisis: Understanding the Immediate Impacts on Waste Pickers

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 7 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to waste pickers based...

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  • Working Papers

    COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World

    This paper presents findings from a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across 5 regions of the world...

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  • Research Reports

    Essential, But Unprotected: How Have Informal Workers Navigated the Health Risks of the Pandemic?

    La crisis de la COVID-19 y la Economía informal Conclusiones principales y recomendaciones de políticas relativas a los riesgos sanitarios...

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