Informal employment in Arab States: A gender equality and workers’ rights perspective

Subject

The regional initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Centre for Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) aims to bring the global knowledge and learning on employment in the informal economy into Arab States, and mainstream Arab States into the global discussion through evidence, data and analysis. It consists of three interlinked components: research, knowledge sharing and awareness raising. It adopts the concept of informal employment to refer to the characteristics of jobs rather than those of the economic units. Furthermore, a gender equality and workers' rights perspective is applied to the analysis of informal employment in select Arab States (Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia).