Region Africa
Country Democratic Republic of Congo
February 14, 2013
The second round of a workshop to support waste pickers organizing in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, was held in January of 2013. The Congolese Women’s Right League, a StreetNet affiliate, with support from WIEGO, organized an event that brought together 30 waste picker delegates from Bandundu, Bas Congo and Kinshasa.
This process started in November 2012, when for the first time, waste pickers came together to discuss the problems they were facing, and training workshops about constituency and organizing procedures were held. In this second round of training, Kapita Tuwizana, an Africa-based organizer from WIEGO, came from South Africa to run a workshop focusing on strengthening the negotiation capacities of the organization vis-a-vis municipal governments.
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