All publications: informal employment + informal enterprises + informal economy

A guidebook on social protection schemes for informal workers in Maharashtra (In Marathi language)

This book presents a list of social protection schemes of the Central Government and Maharashtra State Government that are aimed for people who are below the poverty line, people from lower income groups, women, the elderly, the unemployed,...

Community based Entrepreneurship Development (C-BED) manual for Basic Financial literacy - (In Marathi language)

The Community-based Tool on Basic Financial Literacy: A Facilitators Guide is a training tool of the Community-based Entrepreneurship Development (C-BED) Programme. This material provides CBED facilitators with guidelines and practical instructions...

R204 - Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204) - (In Marathi language)

This book presents contents of the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204) in Marathi language. This is the first international labour standard to focus on the informal economy in its entirety and diversity...

Summary

Summary of Key Findings - Cooperation among workers in the informal economy: A focus on home based workers and waste pickers

This is a summary of key findings of the report “Cooperation among workers in the informal economy: A focus on home-based workers and waste pickers”. This report is part of the joint ILO and WIEGO initiative, which aims to understand the nature and...

Community-Based Entrepreneurship Development (C-BED) for Aspiring Entrepreneurs. Training in Business Development - A Facilitator's Guide...

It provides CBED facilitators with guidelines and practical instructions on how to plan and implement a community-based training to build the business skills of aspiring or current entrepreneurs. This volume focuses on the basic of starting and...

Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 10

Formalizing domestic work

This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.

DIALOGUE in brief: Transition to Formality: The Critical role of Social Dialogue

This first issue in the new series “Dialogue in Brief” examines the critical role of social dialogue in supporting the transition from the informal to the formal economy. It summarises relevant international labour standards as well as the...

Formalization of the informal economy - Garlands and Granville, St. James: A qualitative needs analysis

This Report is a qualitative needs analysis of the pilot communities and examines a lot of the social conditions which existed at the time of the ILO’s intervention. It was produced during phase 1 of the Project.

Policy Outcomes 6: Formalization of the informal economy

Way Out of Informality: Facilitating Formalization of Informal Economy in South Asia - Final evaluation summary

Relevant Policy Outcomes related to Informal Economy

Organising and representing hard-to-organise workers: Implications for Turkey

This report was prepared as a background paper for an international conference on “Organising Hard-to-Organize Groups” held in Ankara, Turkey on 8 May 2018. It was commissioned by the ILO under a project entitled “Improving Social Dialogue in...

Rapid Market Assessment - Zimbabwe

Key Sectors for Women and Youth in Zimbabwe

Assessing the apiculture, artisanal mining, mopane worms and horticulture value chains to empower women and youth in Zimbabwe.

Work at home

Pakistan’s hidden workers - Wages and conditions of home-based workers and the informal economy

This report sets out the findings of research carried out between May and December 2016 in two locations in Karachi looking at Pakistan’s informal economy and the supply chains existing within the textile and garment sector. The report has been...

2016 Labour Overview.

The labour overview in Latin America and the Caribbean worsened in 2016. The economic deceleration experienced in the region since 2011 became a contraction of the economy as of 2016, with a significant impact this year on labour markets in Latin...

Informal Economy

Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204)-Workers' Guide

The Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), adopted by the International Labour Conference (ILC) in June 2015, is the first international instrument dealing specifically with the informal economy. This...

Decent Work on Plantations - Brochure

Way out of Informality: Facilitating formalization of informal economy in Nepal (WOI) (Project fact sheet)

The project aims at facilitating formalization of informal businesses and employment relationships and discourage informalization of formal economy firms and jobs in Nepal and in South Asia.

Video on the Formalization of the informal economy in Jamaica: Granville, Garlands/Horse Guard Project

Duration: 8.52 minutes

Non-standard employment around the world: Understanding challenges, shaping prospects [Overview]

The report analyses the incidence and trends of NSFE globally and explores the reasons behind this phenomenon, including changes in the world of work brought about by globalization and social change, shifting organizational practices among...