All events: informal employment + informal enterprises + informal economy

13th African Regional Meeting

Special plenary debate: “Transition from the informal to the formal economy in Africa: The way forward”

Capacity Building Workshop on Wage Setting

Capacity building of Government of India’s officials

Decent Work for Domestic Workers/ C189

Cooperating Out of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait

Representatives from governments, worker’s organisations, informal domestic worker networks, and national and international experts on workers’ self-organisation gather in Amman to discuss and explore potential organizing services for domestic...

18th American Regional Meeting

Dialogue on "The path to equity: from the informal to the formal economy"

ILO Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy: towards inclusive and sustainable development: Brochure (English, Portuguese and Spanish)

The fourth edition of the ILO Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy will be held in Campinas, Brazil, 28 July – 1 August 2014

ILO's participation in the 20th International AIDS Conference

The ILO is participating in AIDS2014, which is expected to gather over 10,000 delegates (including policy makers, programme implementers, practitioners, activists, scientists, journalists, people living with HIV) from nearly 200 countries on the...

Training Workshop

Awareness Raising & Capacity Building on Legal Framework and Decent Work

Way out of Informality: Facilitating Formalisation of Informal Economy in South Asia’ project has organized a two day long Training Workshop on Awareness Raising & Capacity Building for the stakeholders of the construction sector in Bangladesh. The...

National Workshop

Construction Sector: Challenges & Opportunities for Transitioning from the Informal to the Formal Economy’

The ILO Sub-regional Project titled ‘Way out of Informality: Facilitating Formalisation of Informal Economy in South Asia’ facilitated a day long National Workshop on the Construction Sector: Challenges & Opportunities for Transitioning from the...

Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Facilitating Transitions from the Informal Economy to the Formal Economy

A Tripartite Meeting of Experts will be held to serve as part of the preparatory work for the standard-setting item placed on the agenda of the 103rd Session (June 2014) of the International Labour Conference on facilitating transitions from the...

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012: Town Hall Meeting on Women’s Empowerment through Entrepreneurship

Pro-employment macroeconomic frameworks, sectoral strategies for employment creation and the informal economy - Employment Policy...

The Employment Policy Department’s 2011 annual retreat took place between the 20th and 23rd of September at the ILO premises in Geneva. Its goal was to share knowledge on progress made in five key work areas of the department: pro-employment...

Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work in Asia, 28-30 June, 2010

Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work in Latin America and the Caribbean , 15- 16 April, 2010

Poverty Reduction & Informal Economy

A3-52098: Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Informal Economy Inter-Regional Workshop for Trade Unions from Asia and Africa

The Workshop A3-52098 on “Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Informal Economy” will seek to: a) Strengthen unions’ capacities for promoting a Decent Work development paradigm that reduces poverty and deals with the informal economy; b) Evaluate...

Launch of the Skill Development Initiative for Domestic Workers/Household Assistant in India

The Delhi Government, the Ministry of Labour and Employment and ILO have joined hands to kick-start a pilot training programme to skill and re-skill domestic workers/household assistants across the Delhi and Noida region.

Interregional Symposium on the Informal Economy - Enabling transition to formalization

Organized by EMP/POLICY, Employment Sector and the Social Protection Sector

Workshop on Developing a model-of-change for the informal economy

This workshop brought together Headquarters and field staff with many years of experience on issues of decent work and the informal economy. The purpose was to provide an opportunity for ILO staff to analyse the challenges associated with the...

Workshop on Good Practice: Decent Work and the informal economy

This seminar brought together ILO staff from both Headquarters and the field who are working with informal economy issues. The purpose of the seminar was to establish criteria for good practice in relation to decent work and the informal economy and...

Workshop on the follow-up to the ILC Conclusions on decent work and the informal economy

The purpose of the staff workshop was to develop a coherent framework for pursuing work in the follow-up to the Conclusions on decent work and the informal economy, adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2002. This served as the...

Trade Unions and the Informal Sector