Feature Article

Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies at COP 15

The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies attended COP 15 in Copenhagen to highlight the valuable contribution that waste pickers make to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to add their voices to the demand for fair alternative funding mechanisms.

Partner Updates

Asiye Etafuleni (AeT)
Asiye Etafuleni (AeT) is a newly established non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Durban, South Africa. AeT provides comprehensive design and facilitation services to membership-based organizations (MBOs) of the urban working poor.  Read more... >>          

HomeNet South Asia (HNSA)
HomeNet South Asia is a network organisation of women homebased workers. HomeNet South Asia’s objectives for homebased workers include organizing, advocacy, capacity building and strengthening grass roots and membership-based organisations of homebased workers in South Asian countries.  Read more... >>          

Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP)
KKPKP is a trade union of waste pickers based in Pune, India. The activities of KKPKP include developing institutional mechanisms for social security, creating platforms for social and cultural renewal, market interventions in scrap trade, and advocacy for legislative protection.  Read more... >>          

Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers
The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers is a collective of waste picker organizations from Latin American countries. It includes organizations from the National Movement of Waste Pickers from Brazil and Chile, the National Association of Waste Pickers from Colombia, the Association of Waste Pickers of Bogota, the National Movement of Waste Pickers from Peru and organized waste pickers from Argentina and Uruguay.  Read more... >>          

Self Employed Women’s Association
SEWA is a membership-based organisation of one million poor, self-employed women workers. The members of SEWA earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. SEWA organises women to ensure that every family obtains full employment and has access to health care, child care and shelter.  Read more... >>          

StreetNet International
StreetNet International is an alliance of street vendors launched in Durban, South Africa in November 2002. Membership-based organizations (unions, co-operatives or associations) that directly organize street vendors, market vendors and/or hawkers are among their members.  Read more... >>          

Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
WIEGO is a global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy by increasing their representative Voice through more and stronger organizations and their official Visibility through better statistics and research.  Read more... >>          

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