1.
Session 5. A Different Approach to Policy
IIED-GEC-WIEGO-CIFOR-OECD Event: Informality and Green & Inclusive
Growth
Sally Roever, WIEGO Network
Photo by Juan Arredondo/Getty Images

2.
Poverty Risk Average Earnings Segmentationby Sex
Low High
Employers Predominantly Men
Informal Wage
Workers: “Regular”
Men and Women
Informal Wage Workers: Casual
Industrial Outworkers/Homeworkers
Predominantly
Women
High Low Unpaid Family Workers
Own Account Operators
Segmentation Of The Informal Economy:
By Average Earnings, Poverty Risk And Sex

3.
The Policy Contribution to Less Remunerative,
Less Productive, Less Secure Employment
Home-Based Work:
Low Quality Housing,
Infrastructure
Street Vending:
Evictions, Confiscations
Waste Recycling:
Prohibitions on Access
Photo by Juan Arredondo/Getty ImagesPhoto by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images

4.
Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS),
2012
Full Sample (n=1950):
• Informal employment is main source of household income for 80
per cent
• Average household size = 5+
Size of Home
1-2
Rooms
3 Rooms
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Street
Vendors
Market
Traders
Problems at workplace

5.
 Multiple spaces for less powerful groups to
develop proposals
 Bridge between short-term needs and long-
term processes
Key Elements of “A Different Approach to
Policy”

6.
Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) co-founded in
1990 by Nohra Padilla and Silvio Ruiz
▼
Legal Campaign (20 years) with technical support from pro
bono lawyers and NGOs led by Nohra Padilla
▼
First Global Waste Picker Conference, Bogota (2008)
▼
Constitutional Court Victory (2011)
▼
Successful Bid for Solid Waste Management Contract (2012)
▼
Waste Picker Integration Model Launched in Bogota (2013)
Goldman Environmental Award to Nohra Padilla (2013)
▼
National Ruling to Replicate Bogotá Model throughout
Colombia (2014)
Colombia: Pathway toward Inclusion and
Sustainability