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must also be good cooperation with the
residential groups where street vendors
operate. Crucially, in order to maintain
this model in the long term, a consensus
among the ward, district, and city leaders
is needed. This is only possible when street
vending is allowed in specific areas, such
as on plots of vacant land, unoccupied
yards, stretches of pavement, or the like,
and is under good management, keeping
its impact on traffic, the environment,
and urban landscape to a strict minimum.
The cooperation, involvement, and
support of the city, district, and ward
leaders is crucial in order to set up local
marketplaces for street vendors.

A valuable point noted by the
research team is that the stakeholders
across the board must share in the effort.

vendors participating to workshops said
that they would like to raise awareness
among other street vendors about the
need to comply with street vending
regulations. They also specifically asked
for support to overcome problems with
food safety. They want other vendors to
be well-informed in order to reduce risks,
deal with hygiene issues, identify unsafe
vegetable and fruit produce, as well as
risks in the process of produce selection
and sales. There was a consensus on the
necessity to sustain the successful cases of
integration of street vending in the wards,
e.g., Kim Liem market, and to replicate
this experience in other areas.

Conclusions

T

he research we presented
demonstrates how a stakeholder
approach can help to overcome the
hostility that authorities and consumers
may feel toward street vendors. This
means providing a better understanding
of the objectives and constraints on both
sides. The literature review shows that
rather than trying to convert informal
activities into formal activities, a more
pragmatic approach is to upgrade them
in the context of developing economies
(Bhowmik, op. cit.).

The leaders of residential groups
The research on fruit and
must be responsible for seeing that street vegetable street vending enabled the
vendors sit at their designated places and research team to demonstrate the
that cleanup is done after the market significant contribution of this activity
session. They must also look into the to the livelihoods of the poor and to food
quality of the produce sold and remind distribution. From the standpoint of the
street vendors of their obligations as authorities and consumers, street vending
needed.
activities bring advantages but admittedly

Ward, district, and city leaders may be a cause of traffic obstruction and
expressed their interest in working give rise to consumer concerns over food
toward this model. Moreover, the street safety.
• People
living
around
the
marketplace need to accept a bit of
noise and loss of space where street
vendors set up on both sides of the
street.
• Street ve ndors must maintain order,
discipline, tidiness, and cleanliness.
• Garbage collection workers should
cooperate to help clear up waste
after each market session, sharing
the work with the street vendors.

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