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GAIA Africa in the house ❤️

Loved having Niven Reddy over to tell us more about GAIA Africa's work on wastepicker rights, the Global Plastics Treaty, textiles, and waste colonialism, among many other topics.

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October 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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My Climate Job: Barbra Weber, Waste Picker www.momscleanairforce.org/climate-job-... #MyClimateJob, #WastePicker @momscleanairforce.org
Waste Pickers: On the Plastic Pollution Front Lines
Learn about waste pickers - what they do, who they are, and how they are on the front lines of fighting global plastic pollution.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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EFTA01159009 | EFTA01159017 • Potential for private sector development. AVINA Americas was granted $3 million to broker projects in several Latin American countries between Recicladores Sin Fronteras (Wastepickers Without Borders) and international partners like Coca Cola, PepsiCo, and Danone. Through these engagements, we link the private sector to inputs generated by wastepicker cooperatives. • Using simple technology can link people with work. LabourNets is an Indian social enterprise which seeks to improve earning opportunities, working conditions, skills and security for workers in the informal sector (90% of India's workforce). LabourNet uses mobile technology, including automated, multilingual SMS messaging, GIS and GPS applications, to announce daily job openings for urban informal workers. It provides training opportunities, access to health insurance, ability to open bank accounts, and assistance receiving proper identification cards for workers been denied these social benefits. The system also offers assistance to the growing professional class and mid-sized business community who find it difficult to access workers. Lesson 3: Good governance is more than a process • Community voice and participation in local government decision-making is an antidote to corruption. Local or municipal governments are more likely to be responsive, accountable, and transparent in relationships with their constituents if there are mechanisms through which CBOs can express their priorities and concerns and monitor local government processes. These mechanisms include municipal oversight councils with CBO representation, shared budgeting exercises (or in some cases, even grants/contracts), and participatory or transparent planning. • Cities will tackle tough challenges if they have learned from each other. In 2010, Sister Cities International launched the $8 million Africa Urban Poverty Alleviation Program (AUPAP), a three-year project to alleviate poverty in 25 African cities through water, sanitation, and health initiatives led by U.S. and African sister city programs. Through this unique project, U.S. sister city programs collaborate with African counterparts to identify and address critical problems that form a barrier to sustained development in urban areas. While the projects attempted in each city are small, each one meets a critical community need and builds capacity for participation and basic project management, motivating the city to tackle similar problems at larger scale. This program demonstrates that cities can deliver on their vision, and three cities have graduated to larger projects funded through their own national governments. • Partnering cities and community organizations creates new opportunity for poverty alleviation. The Global Project for Inclusive Municipal Governance (GPIMG) is a $25 million five year package of grantees and contractors supporting 5 African cities to create sustainable and inclusive municipal processes that deliver new or improved jobs, services, or shelter for the urban poor. We have chosen rapidly urbanizing cities as laboratories where we can compare and contrast their experiences and results. We are the first international organization to make grants LabourNet is a sub-grantee of CHF International's $8 million "SCALE-UP" project that works to promote livelihood opportunities in secondary cities of India and Ghana. They also received funding and business development assistance from our "Urban Value-Chain Development" grant to the SEEP Network. For more information on this organization please see www.labournet.in. 9 EFTA01159017
May 12, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Community-led wastepicker organizing as climate solution. That reframing matters: the people already doing the work aren't beneficiaries of a program. They're the experts. What changes when policy starts from their knowledge instead of designing programs for them?
May 18, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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EFTA01159009 | EFTA01159022 trade unions. They struggle to overcome issues of credibility with other partners but have staying power, a vested interested in the outcomes and a greater sense of urgency. They make great intermediary grantees for us, subject to limitations of their organizational capacity and culture. • Private sector players cannot engage over time unless there is a clear revenue stream, but many will offer short term capital on a speculative or even CSR basis. Issues relating to corruption are prominent and difficult to manage at the interface between local government and the private sector. Creating an Enabling Legal and Regulatory Environment Poverty alleviation efforts benefit tremendously when community decision making and management of resources are supported by a legal and regulatory framework. While it naive to think that this happens in a comprehensive fashion, there are some specific areas where appropriate policies, laws, and enforceable regulations can foster inclusivity and promote competitiveness for the urban working poor. While some of our funding is used to promote local reform around issues such as the tendering process, we have also supported public interest litigation through our partners in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Some of the legal victories associated with these efforts in Peru, Colombia, Chile, India, and South Africa include the ability for CBOs to participate in public tender processes, social recognition and protection for wastepickers, and equal rights to public resources and space. How we are catalytic Urban poverty has no one cause, and therefore focusing on a single intervention is not likely to be transformative. Instead, we believe that there is potential to alleviate poverty at large scale by investing in a series of inter-related processes that link cities with communities. Our approach is catalytic because it: • Addresses failures of government and market. Government and the private sector must treat wastepicker cooperatives or self-help groups in ways different from how they treat the members individually. • Reduces transaction costs. Structural poverty arises in part because small-scale transactions have high costs. As seen with our recycling and home-based workers, creating poor-owned and poor-controlled entities (aggregating workers) reduces costs and increases the poor's net earnings. • Focuses on durable linkages. Beyond creating new entities, our work forges demand-driven linkages that are based on sound business practice and/or build social fabric. Whether through street vendor rural-urban connections or the formation of informal settlement units within city governments, the connections are organic and provide mutual benefit. • Captures and grows sustainable flows. Rather than promoting a mere substitution of one type of worker or input for another, our work promotes complementary interventions and growth of 14 EFTA01159022
May 12, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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WastePicker(s) Training | 12 December 2025

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Waste Management Sub-Directorate is leading another wastepicker training session at City Hall today.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM