Informal Sector Index - Workers' Activities

Departments and Offices

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Informal Sector and Atypical Forms of Labour

"An intersectoral task force on decent work in the informal economy will ensure that research, policies and programmes targeting the informal economy constitute a coherent approach taking all the ILO's strategic objectives into consideration."

Strategic policy framework, 2002-05

General Information

Decent work and the informal economy (Report VI, ILC 2002)

Report of the Committee on the Informal Economy (ILC 2002)

Evaluation of Urban Informal Sector (GB 277, 2000)

Employment in Informal Sector (GB 277, 2000)

ACTRAV: International Symposium on Trade Unions and the Informal Sector, Conclusions and recommendations, 1999

Strategic Approach to Job Creation in the Urban Informal Sector, Mr. Juan Somavia, Director General of the ILO, 2000

Publications

Organizing out of poverty: stories from the grassroots - How the SYNDICOOP approach has worked in East Africa (2006)

Unprotected labour: What role for unions in the informal economy? (Labour Education 2002/2, Number 127)

Trade Unions Finding their Bearings (Labour Education 1999/3, Number 116)

ACTRAV: Trade Unions and the Informal Sector

ACTRAV: Beyond survival - Organizing the informal economy

Additional information (not ILO Sites)

Related ACTRAV Web Pages

Decent Work

Employment Strategy

Occupational Safety and Health

Conditions of Work

Wages

Multinational Enterprises

World Employment Report

Updated by EG. Approved by JB. Last updated: 5 February 2007.