INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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Primary information
- Year formed
- 2007
- Formally registered
- No
- Number of members
- 32
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Type of Organization
- Self-help group
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Door to door
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- The Self-Help group has a chairperson, a coordinator, a secretary, a treasurer and one member. The leaders are selected through a voting process which is carried out annually. A total of three men and three women constitute the management committee. Records kept by the group include attendance records, cash OUT/IN. Members pay a membership fee of 100 shillings.
- Objectives
- Recycling, job creation, contribute to cleaning the environment,
- Education and training
- Waste management
- Partnering organizations
- Sana International, WIFIP, C-MEDA
- Affiliations
- Ngo
- Funding
- Self funded
- Internal elections
- Annually
- Women composition
- 75,0%
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Benefits
- Member benefits
- Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income
- Safety & Technology
- Safety boots
Services
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Excellent and/or friendly
- Types of materials
- Biodegradable waste, Bones, Human waste, Metals, Paper and cardboard, Plastics
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- Yes
- Activities
- Composting, Farming, Selling materials, Waste collection, Waste sorting
- Treatmet of organic materials
- Composting
- Challenges to access waste
- Foul smell & contamination from waste, Lack of infrastructure & resources, Transportation
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009
Comments / Narrative
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