INCLUSIVE WASTE GOVERNANCE AND GRASSROOTS INNOVATIONS FOR SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE

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dc.contributor.authorAdalberto, M. M. de Azevedo
dc.contributor.authorSebastián, Carenzo
dc.contributor.authorCharles, Goodluck
dc.contributor.authorGutberlet, Jutta
dc.contributor.authorJaan-Henrik, Kain
dc.contributor.authorMichael, O. Oloko
dc.contributor.authorJessica, Pérez Reynosa
dc.contributor.authorPatrik, Zapata
dc.contributor.authorMaría José, Zapata Campos
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-03T14:03:58Z
dc.date.available2019-04-03T14:03:58Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-19
dc.description.abstractParticipants of two research projects (Recycling Networks: Grassroots resilience tackling climate, environmental and poverty challenges (funded by the Swedish Research Council) and Mapping Waste Governance (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) collaborate in offering a critical inter- and transdisciplinary perspective on waste and waste actors (waste picker cooperatives, associations, community-based organizations, partnerships, networks and NGOs). The research is conducted in the following cities: Buenos Aires (Argentina), São Paulo (Brazil), Vancouver and Montreal (Canada), Kisumu (Kenya), Managua (Nicaragua) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). Together we examine the challenges that innovative grassroots initiatives and networks encounter in generating livelihoods to improve household waste collection and recycling, particularly in informal settlements of global South cities. We seek to map waste governance and successful waste management initiatives, arrangements and policies involving grassroots initiatives. In this report, we present a brief description of solid waste governance in the cities where we conducted fieldwork. We then illuminate some of our findings on grassroots innovations involving waste pickers or waste workers in these cities. Both research projects combine multi-case studies of waste picker groups and local government initiatives, apply qualitative research tools and participatory action research (e.g. photo voice, participant observation, workshops, surveys and interviews). We are interested in understanding processes, challenges and opportunities related to how these grassroots initiatives and networks operate to bring about socio-environmental and economic change? How they address challenges and what the assets are in everyday waste governance that can be explored to make waste governance more sustainable and thus more inclusive? Researchers involved in these two projects, key stakeholders from grassroots initiatives in these countries, representatives from some international waste picker networks and local and regional government officials from Kisumu, Kenya, met between 23rd and 29th of April 2018, in Kisumu to present and discuss the results of the first year of research activities, which are herewith documented.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSwedish Research Council, funding “Recycling Networks. Grassroots resilience tackling climate, environmental and poverty challenges” (n° 2016-06289) and Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, funding for Partnership Development project “Mapping Waste Governance” (n° 890-2016-0098).en_US
dc.identifier.issn978-91-984547-3-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5142
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWiegoen_US
dc.titleINCLUSIVE WASTE GOVERNANCE AND GRASSROOTS INNOVATIONS FOR SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGEen_US
dc.title.alternativeREPORT ON FIRST RESEARCH OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT RECYCLING NETWORKS & WASTE GOVERNANCEen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US
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