A multi level advocacy strategy to grant recognition to precarious informal waste pickers and recyclers

Good Practice: A multi-level advocacy strategy to grant recognition to precarious informal waste pickers and recyclers (Colombia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Vietnam).

Lesson learned: It is common that dominant actors try to control and invest in many of the levels within a value chain and then eliminate traditional actors who have to struggle to keep their survival jobs.

Recommendation: Organise the most vulnerable workers such as waste pickers and recyclers using multi-level advocacy to support formalising them. Formalising will enable them to obtain recognition, safety and cleanliness to the benefit of workers and communities.

Source: ENDA. Colombia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Vietnam (Project Final Report)