CBRCanada Webinar: Moving the Dial On: Waste Picker Rights and Social Inclusion
Thu, Feb 23
|Online Event
Join CBRCanada in an e-learning event about "Moving the Dial" on the rights and social inclusion of a marginalized group: waste pickers. This is the second session in a six-part e-learning series highlighting action-oriented community-based research.
Time & Location
Feb 23, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST
Online Event
About the Event
Community-Based Research Canada presents “Moving the Dial”: our 2023 E-Learning series. This series will highlight action-oriented community-based research that is ‘moving the dial’ on today’s pressing societal challenges. An important hallmark of community-based research, taking an action-orientated and impactful approach, means research partnerships mobilizing knowledge and mobilizing communities towards positive societal change. The research projects highlighted within this series demonstrate impact of community-based research. We will hear about research partnerships that facilitated actions improving societal conditions, including changes in policies, systems, organizations, and communities where everyone is supported and belongs.
Webinar
This webinar will tell the story of the partnership development project 'Mapping Waste Governance', which seeks to identify, examine and document grassroots social innovations and challenges in waste governance under different geographic contexts. Through this research, waste becomes re-conceptualized as a resource and waste management as an inclusive approach, involving different waste actors (waste pickers, small scale waste entrepreneurs,…