Informal waste workers play a vital role in waste management systems across the world collecting, transporting, sorting and recovering recyclable and reusable waste materials, often from open dumpsites. Yet, they face unsafe working conditions, poor access to health services, little recognition, and limited protection. In response to these challenges, and based on first-hand experience from…
Delve into an immersive study exploring the sanitation landscape in India and the role of subsidies in advancing the sanitation agenda. In this research our FINISH Mondial team explores key barriers to safe sanitation, including financial constraints, gaps in awareness, and institutional hurdles, while highlighting the key role of microfinance in bridging funding gaps. Drawing on field…
We developed the Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM) approach as a tool to understand the existing and necessary ‘who’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ elements are present and needed in a given [waste management] system. The ISWM approach helps to analyse three important dimensions: We work on understanding each of these dimensions and how they relate to…